The Dutch are becoming less tolerant, according to a social psychologist at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Jan Janssens claims that parental pressure on children to express autonomous behaviour...
Turkey's president has plunged the country's 22 state universities into chaos by rejecting all the rectoral candidates proposed by the higher education authority (Yok) in a move that implicitly...
Two Spanish universities have separately announced within days of each other that they intend to be the first to offer virtual university courses in Spanish. The timing of the statements reveals...
Duncan McLaren, a first-class honours graduate from Heriot-Watt University, is being sponsored by chip-design giant Cadence to join a unique engineering doctorate programme at the Institute for...
It might be hard to compete with the spectacular sights of Sydney Harbour, but a new ferry that hit the water this month to transport tourists past the Opera House and under the famous bridge is...
Kymata, a spin-off company from Glasgow University, could ease the global communications traffic jam and bring down costs. Its work on planar optoelectronics has produced a system that can "funnel"...
Work has started on the Open University Business School's prestigious new home, and it coincides with the release of a ROMcard that gives a multimedia view of the OUBS. The OUBS ROMcard looks like a...
A Pounds ,000 fellowship has been set up in memory of Dick Onians, the late chairman of the Royal Society for the Arts. The aim is to give an opportunity to someone to take time out to develop an...
Two University of Sussex students have won cash awards for their computer science final-year projects, sponsored by Searchspace, an intelligent systems for enterprise automation company. The winner...
Anglia Polytechnic University and Cambridgeshire Careers Guidance have launched a website aimed at unemployed graduates. The website, called g-force, has been produced by the university's Ultralab...
IBM has unveiled the world's fastest computer - three times faster than the recorded speed of any other computer - capable of 12 trillion calculations a second. "ASCI White" covers an area bigger...
Soon all you will need to find a cashpoint or let the Automobile Association pinpoint your expired vehicle will be a mobile phone, thanks to technology that identifies the location of the devices. It...
Cyber authors gathering in the flesh at Nottingham Trent University this week have been trying to define why web publishing has so radically and unexpectedly affected their writing. Most agreed that...
This week's spending review may at last mark a turning point. Many in the universities who helped vote Tony Blair in three years ago, and who have since wondered why, will certainly hope so....
Much more should be done to foster relationships between institutions and local organisations, says Nick Barnes Universities and colleges are important players in the local as well as the national...