Minister sued for reforms barter
Australian education minister David Kemp is being sued over claims that he has contravened the government's Workplace Relations Act by trying to coerce universities into adopting anti-union policies...
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Sweden leads world into new age of learning
Uppsala University, founded in 1477, might be Sweden's oldest, but its new learning lab means it is looking towards the future. The facility is part of the Swedish Learning Lab (SLL), a collaborative...
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Pounds 2 million given for scholarships
Canadian company Nortel Networks is to spend Pounds 2 million on university scholarships and will create 2,000 high-technology jobs in Europe this year, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The company's aim is to...
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Online site aids search for grads
Employers throughout Ireland can now headhunt graduates online through a new website. Careers advisers at Northern Ireland's two universities believe the site will help combat the province's skills...
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Surrey project wins Nasa cash
A technology spin-off from the University of Surrey has won a contract from American space agency Nasa to research the development of a worldwide communications standard based on internet protocols (...
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Name game
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is meeting in Japan next Friday to decide on the process for creating new generic top-level domains. Icann, which is in charge of...
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Oxford bagged
A Queensland inventor who changed his name by deed poll to Oxford University in an attempt to prove he has the right to keep the domain name www.oxford-university.com has lost his case. A World...
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Adelaide boost
Adelaide University is to open a new physics facility with what is thought to be the largest supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere. The A$3.6 million (Pounds 2.38 million) facility - the...
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Talent show
A graduate show targeted at employers of creative talent is being launched on Monday. "New Blood", at the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane, London, will bring together the work of graduates from more...
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Language move
A new European Union funding programme aimed at boosting e-commerce is set to increase the number of websites hosted in Europe, especially those that use languages other than English. The EU wants to...
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Net values
The internet may not be the global price-cutting tool it was thought to be, according to a recent study. Erik Brynjolfsson, associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-director of...
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Bath expansion
Ingenta, the Bath University spin-off internet gateway company, is to buy the Publishers Communication Group. PCG provides marketing services to publishers; negotiating electronic licensing...
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What price new moves to halt the brain drain?
Wednesday's surprise extra research cash is welcome - even if once again the government is taking credit for spending other people's money. Particularly welcome is the proposed rise in PhD stipends....
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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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Greenaway's stark warning: pay or decay
The Greenaway report makes the case for differential fees -accompanied by scholarships, bursaries and income-contingent loans - in the most rigorous terms yet. The report's authors, themselves...