Business dons cross the border for richer pickings
Canada is struggling to keep its business gurus from relocating to rich American business schools, according to a report. Paul Beamish, from Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business, has...
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Vladivostok basks in its freedom
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
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Skills shortage hits industry
Australia's chief scientist, Robin Batterham, has presented the federal government with a gloomy report on the state of science, engineering and technology. Following an "audit" of science...
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US is hot on funds, cool on PC
The peculiar spectacle that is the American presidential campaign typically begins in earnest in September, and this time education is taking centre stage. Picking up on public opinion polls that...
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Blue-chip welcome
Top names in the world's fastest-growing industry witnessed the launch of a new computer entertainment research centre at Abertay University this week. Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia and other top...
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Food for thought
Academics at Nottingham Trent University have been sowing the seeds for international agricultural research links by offering a unique training programme for key figures from Indian agriculture and...
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Ebook advance
Adobe Systems is to buy Boston-based ebook company Glassbook, which develops consumer and commercial software for the ebook market, automating the supply chain for publishers, booksellers,...
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Stone age
British scientists claim to have created the world's first intelligent pebble. The smart stone has been developed to help researchers understand the processes that can lead to coastal erosion or...
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Fertile idea
Going to market has gone online for Ayrshire farmers, with the help of Kilmarnock College. The college is offering local farmers computer training and a website. The project, jointly funded by the...
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Job skills boosted with free laptops
Hundreds of new entrants to two Scottish universities, Strathclyde and Paisley, are about to be greeted with the ultimate in "freebies" - a laptop that aims to make them more employable. Strathclyde...
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Survivors guide to 'internet tsunami'
Anyone in higher education who thinks that online technologies are not going to affect bricks and mortar institutions should consider an e-business course being taught by Jack Wilson at Rensselaer...
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Biotech spin-off scoops Pounds 11m for drug development
A biotechnology spin-off company set up by university scientists has raised Pounds 11 million in venture capital backing. The deal, thought to be the largest sum raised through venture capital by a...
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Wing commanders
(Photograph) - A team of students from Loughborough University and Virginia Tech, in the US, has won the innovative design category of the US National General Aviation Design Competition. The winning...
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Business link-up creates top MBA
The University of Queensland has established unique links with one of Australia's biggest business schools in Melbourne and with the Singapore Institute of Management. In a national first for...
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Net firm bows to authors' demands
Canadian academics, angered by an agreement that allows an American e-commerce operation to sell their theses and dissertations over the internet, have convinced the company to remove their writings...