Rebuilding a troubled country
Overcoming the social and economic problems facing South Africa after the 1994 elections was never going to be easy. For the past six years, a struggling economy, unemployment, crime and the impact...
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Aberdeen hits industrial stage with Axeon aid
Technology company Axeon has signed a second-stage deal with Aberdeen University to take a pioneering approach to high-bandwidth communications through to the manufacturing stage. Under an agreement...
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Back innovation or falter, report warns
Australia risks becoming a "branch office" economy unless the federal government spends an extra A$2.6 billion (Pounds 1 billion) over the next five years to encourage innovation, according to a...
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Global jam for Unesco challenge
Fifty student designers from nine European countries and Japan converged on Paris for a "creative jam" last week at the Cite Universitaire Internationale. Apple invited the students to work in teams...
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Leeds mathematicians help designers save millions
University of Leeds mathematicians have devised a formula that is saving manufacturers millions of pounds during tests of product design performance. Malcolm Bloor and Mike Wilson of the department...
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Institute to fill gap in testing industry
Scotland's collaborative Institute for System Level Integration is launching a new postgraduate programme for test engineers, crucial for developing tests on the new generation of system-on-chip...
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Central force
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has opened a Pounds 1.8 million centre for small business development in the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow. The...
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Power play
An education start-up company that sued Harvard University to protect its right to use the name notHarvard.com is changing its name to Powered.com. NotHarvard.com filed a lawsuit against Harvard in...
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Arabic orbit
Surrey University spin-off SSTL has won an Pounds 8 million contract from the Centre National des Techniques Spatiales of Algeria for an advanced Earth observation microsatellite. A long-term...
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Accents online
Russian training organisations are turning to the internet to promote English language courses. One training company is offering special language certificates to the first 1,000 students to sign up...
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E-boot camp
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, in the US, is partnering University Access, an online learning company, to develop an online version of the business school's business bridge...
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Caribbean connection
Coventry University has given 62 computers to the Caribbean island group of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The donation follows a meeting between Gill Holmes, marketing manager at the university, and...
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Room and IT course offered to homeless
The government has launched a Pounds 6.5 million scheme to introduce 49 high-tech learning environments in specialist centres across the United Kingdom that provide accommodation for the homeless....
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Changing environment demands collaboration
Britain's university system is set for the sort of change already accelerating in further education, as the near-merger between Bradford and Leeds Metropolitan makes clear (page 64). Such...
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Hope remains, but the chance of more is receding
"My hope," said the minister for higher education in Brighton this week, "is that the money will be forthcoming." The money in question is the as yet undisclosed spending planned for higher education...