The Shanghai authorities have closed 1 internet cafes in a crackdown days after new policies emerged from Beijing to control the internet more tightly. The authorities said the action was also in...
Huddersfield University is developing a virtual campus that it believes will one day enable students to obtain degrees without ever setting foot in the town. The university's Pounds 500,000 Learning...
Scholars of Romance languages have a new facility for research via the internet. The Biblioteca Angelo Monteverdi at Rome's La Sapienza University has set up a vast digital archive of original works...
Loughborough University has embraced the rapidly developing service culture in higher education with an early-warning system to handle complaints and inquiries. Janet Ireland, customer services...
Members of human rights groups in southern Africa are to be trained online by a team of experts based at Oxford University's department for continuing education, thanks to an award of over Pounds 600...
Leeds University is developing a specialist computer software company as a result of its Pounds 20 million partnership with the Forward Group. The company, Virtual Working Systems, designs and tests...
A tiny measuring device developed by researchers at St Andrews University has won an international award for commercial excellence. Timewarp, a device invented by Derryck Reid and Wilson Sibbett of...
The "disappearing computer" is the theme of the second Physical and Tangible Interaction workshop during the i3Net Spring Days in Athens from March 1-3. The workshop will focus on predictions that...
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University's department of mechanical and chemical engineering are using flexible materials to allow robots to grasp or select delicate objects without damaging them. The...
Fewer overseas students are opting to study in Britain just when the government has set targets for increased numbers. Some fall in recruitment from Southeast Asia was to be expected because of the...
The old notion of the university is gone. Its reinvention, says Ronald Barnett, brings new responsibilities Today, the university lives with multiple callings. The injunctions multiply: high-quality...
Steve Farrar looks at research sure to grab the limelight at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting next week. The tiny brown fruit fly is seldom welcomed, often ignored....
A microbiologist thinks that a group of Kenyan prostitutes could hold the key to defeating Aids. Philip Fine reports. A mysterious resistance to HIV by a group of Kenyan prostitutes has provided the...
A remarkable cosmic phenomenon that has baffled astronomers may provide fresh evidence of the universe's most violent accident - the collision of two neutron stars. Scientists from the Institute for...
History has done the redcoats a disservice. New research is sweeping away the outdated image of the British soldier who fought in colonial America as a poorly motivated mercenary handicapped by...