Glittering prizes
The Institute of Physics has made the following awards for 2001: the Glazebrook Medal and Prize to Colin Webb , University of Oxford, for his leading role in the organisation and promotion of laser...
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World View: It's the narrative, stupid
Seeing his daughter campaign with gusto has drawn Harvey Kaye wholeheartedly into an odd election Apparently (and chillingly), Texas governor George W. Bush may become the next president of the...
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Eyewitness
Twenty-five years ago 350,000 Moroccans marched into the Spanish Sahara and occupied it. This so-called Green March was the start of a long-running post-colonial dispute over the desert homeland of...
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World Watch
Paris Information technologies are valuable education tools, but they must improve access in poor as well as developed nations, the seventh Unesco/non-governmental organisations consultation on...
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Drop-out rates shock Spain
Almost half of Spanish students drop out before completing their first three years of study. For those students who make it to their final year, the success rate improves with only a 25-30 per cent...
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Dutch adopt tiered degrees
The Netherlands is to introduce the "Bama", or Anglo-Saxon degree system. From the start of the academic year 2002, graduates will be able to adopt the title of "bachelor" or "master" in addition to...
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Romany institute opened
Romany groups in the Czech Republic last week opened an institute that will provide information on the housing, education and employment conditions of the country's Romanies. It will also train...
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Canada and the UK tackle visa delay
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. A plan to overcome visa problems encountered by some students on overseas work placements has been drawn up by...
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Education action plan adopted
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. Commonwealth education ministers have put higher education at the centre of a ground-breaking statement that...
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Fee relief is key to widening access
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax Commonwealth education ministers have set ambitious targets for student mobility between member states, with a...
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Satellite helps Fiji campus ride out coup disruption
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax The dispersed multicampus University of the South Pacific was able to harness the latest satellite technology...
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College insists on internet familiarity
With distance education being touted as a way to bring high-level courses to far-flung audiences, one American university has begun an odd experiment, requiring students on its campus to take at...
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Irish spin-off wins top software award
A spin-off company from the University of Ulster has won one of Europe's most coveted and lucrative software awards. Belfast-based MINEit Software beat 20 finalists to become the second ever United...
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Four soft tops
British university teams won four of the ten prizes in the European software competition, Easa2000, in Rotterdam last week. Groups from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield and the Open...
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Optical opt-in
The International Society for Optical Engineering and Institute of Physics has completed the full acquisition of the joint-venture company Optics.Org Ltd by Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP)....