A Spanish anatomy professor has won a ten-year campaign for a memorial to the people who donated their bodies for the teaching of medicine in the Basque country. The University of the Basque country...
Berlin's eight universities and Fachhochschulen should undergo sweeping reforms and some academic institutes should be closed, according to a damning report from the Science Council, Germany's...
The Vatican is offering the world's television networks an advertisement depicting a white dove taking off from a university lecture hall and winging its way to St Peter's basilica. The video...
Government policies aimed at widening access to education through technology are failing -and universities are also missing the mark, because of poorly designed websites - according to research...
(Photograph) - Audrey White (right) won an award this week from the City Lit, where she has qualified as a professional aromatherapist after starting by selling aromatherapy oils from a market stall...
The University of the South Pacific has launched a multimillion-dollar communications project linking students in its 12 member states. USPNet2000 is probably unique because of the area it covers and...
The University of Teesside is harnessing wireless application protocol technology to widen access to information about its services. The university, one of a handful to gain an "excellent" teaching...
Aberdeen University is hoping to create between 50 and 60 jobs with Pounds 5 million in research funding from the European Union. The university has boosted its cache of EU grants by 50 per cent for...
May I correct one or two details in your account of my impending leave in Cambridge (Diary, THES, May 19). I will not be taking a sabbatical, enjoyable as that might be, but adding some unused leave...
The Open University science faculty has relaunched its website after growing demand from internet users. There are now links to all the OU's science sites, a summary of departmental research...
The IT facilities and annual spend on information provision per full-time student vary dramatically between universities, according to statistics in The Student Book 2001. Cranfield has an annual...
A European Commission-funded consortium of learning institutions is launching a postgraduate degree to train specialists in the art and mechanics of information. FORM-AMI, whose members include...
Performance artist Stelarc (www.stelarc.va.com) will give the opening talk at "Incubation, the trAce" conference on writing and the internet from July 10-12 at Nottingham Trent University. Details:...
A new application launched at this week's "Internet World" exhibition in London allows ink and audio from business presentations and education lectures to be broadcast over the internet. Handwritten...
Lord Puttnam will be the key speaker at a conference on the role of audio in interactive media next Friday. "Sounding Off2" follows an event held at Bafta in November. The academy is running the...