Market responds to student demands
GERMANY: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe Internet business success stories such as the search engine Yahoo! and bookseller Amazon.com are inspiring German...
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Market responds to student demands
FRANCE: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe French university students are forsaking science in favour of more fashionable courses such as psychology and sports...
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Market responds to student demands
ITALY: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe Over the past few years, Italian enrolment policy has aimed at cutting a drop out rate of more than 60 per cent. Out...
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Market responds to student demands
SPAIN: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe One of the hardest courses to get on this year in Spain was telecommunications engineering at the University of...
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Hebrew cellphone deal
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli cellular phone company, Cellcom, have launched a service to enable students to receive their exam results and other information on the display...
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Stanmore tests online
Stanmore College has put its diagnostic testing programme on to its intranet. Students are tested at entry in maths and English to grade them and see if they need extra support. Now that the tests...
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Publix admin masters
Thirty-six senior policy-makers and managers from central and local government and from public and voluntary services started on Warwick University Business School's new master of public...
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Health probe on mobiles
A team of University of Leeds researchers led by epidemiologist Tricia McKinney will question thousands of people in the next three years. They hope to answer one of the biggest questions of the...
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eBook store opens
barnesandnoble.com and Microsoft are taking a step into the digital content future with the creation of a barnesandnoble.com eBook superstore using Microsoft Reader software. The eBook initiative...
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Literature on the web
CLCWeb is the only refereed online journal in the discipline of comparative literature and is peer-refereed quarterly with a distinguished advisory board. It maintains a library with bibliographies...
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Online teaching's costs are 'high, rewards low'
A committee of professors at the University of Illinois has concluded that the promised financial returns of distance education may be exaggerated. The group's report, Teaching at an Internet...
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Dance steps fill e-mall with life
Engineers at Edinburgh University have enlisted the aid of a choreographer in a bid to make e-commerce more appealing. Rachel Price is using dance theory to help computer animation experts in...
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Now lecturers can be in three places at once
International engineering experts may soon find themselves lecturing at Australian, British and Thai universities - all at the same time. State-of-the-art technology is being used to link the...
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Remedy inside the test tubers
Scientists are going back to nature to search for new drugs. Geoff Watts discovers yet more things to make with a potato. Chemists can now synthesise new molecules or refashion existing ones with an...
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Light shines on wings of colour
Researchers at Exeter University are harnessing the power of a new supercomputer to understand how attention-seeking butterflies make life so complicated. The examination of the structure of...