Web classroom eases learning difficulty
A prototype virtual classroom designed to ease learning for dyslexic and visually impaired students has been developed at the University of Leeds. The multimedia environmental education group has...
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Higher channels
John Davies sifts through the schedules for academic viewing (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. The BBC's "History 2000" programmes are a mixed bunch; Monday's Breaking the Seal does not...
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How to play and make it pay
The market for video games is growing and so too is thedemand for graduates to work in it. Steven Poole reports on the universities tailoring degrees for Dreamcasters. The idea of spending three...
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Pounds 50,000 for your thoughts
Should academics be allowed to pursue consultancy work for personal profit? As the High Court considers the case of Nottingham vs Fishel, Phil Baty surveys universities' contradictory guidelines,...
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Will Britain buy a therapeutic cell?
Ayala Ochert reports on the row over the future of stem cell research in the United Kingdom. For a fee of $5,000, researchers can get two vials of a tightly controlled substance. The American...
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Leading the country by the head and heart
Prime minister Tony Blair looks back over 100 years of Labour and finds inspiration to face the challenges ahead. I think Keir Hardie may be ruefully stroking his beard as he looks down on Britain...
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It is new, but it's not Labour
To mark the centenary of its founding this weekend, the Labour Party, says Brian Brivati, should think less about trade unions and more about trade descriptions and come up with a name to match its...
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Child of the killing fields
Chanrithy Him was employed to study stress among Cambodian refugees. But the job awakened memories of her own experiences in labour camps under a death regime. Tim Cornwell reports. In the early...
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Pisa
Italy's students claim private tutoring associations are taking increasing advantage of inadequate teaching at universities to exploit students, with the general approval of their own university...
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Mexico City
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, entered his office last week, nearly three months after he was appointed during a student strike over increased...
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Banned by Straw poll
If home secretary Jack Straw is feeling beleagured he will find no sanctuary at his alma mater. Leeds University Union, of which Mr Straw was president in 1968, has banned him from the union building...
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Copenhagen
Danish officials are taking a relaxed view of economics students who use state-guaranteed educational loans, which carry a 4.25 per cent interest rate, to speculate in high-risk, high-gain technology...
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Dayton, Tennessee
A small number of papers associated with the 1925 "monkey trial", in which a science teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, were lost or damaged in a fire at Bryan College. It destroyed rare...
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Kuala Teregganu, Malaysia
The Peninsula Malay Students Federation has advised its 200,000 members to avoid illegal gatherings and protests, warning that action will be taken against students who use the federation's name for...
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Sporting chance
(Photograph) - Children from a Middlesbrough primary school visited the University of Teesside for a festival of sport to give students on the sports science degree experience of working with 'real'...