Wider access
Birmingham-based internet services provider DIALnet is to launch initiatives aimed at increasing broadband net access for further education colleges, widening teaching resources and providing free...
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Deadly colours of caterpillars
A team of Stirling University scientists hopes to solve the mystery of why an African species of caterpillar changes colour in crowded conditions. The African army worm is a major pest in East Africa...
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Approaching a cure for croup
Scottish scientists believe they are a step closer to wiping out one of the world's most distressing childhood conditions, after winning a grant from an American drugs company to develop new drugs...
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Technology drive by new coalition
Austria's ruling parties have made technology and innovation a priority and have put a controversial figure in charge. Michael Gardner reports Headlines around the world have focused on the arrival...
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Dreams, dogs, design
John Wood asks students to take on a persona when writing projects, to dream in the written, not just the visual form. Jennifer Currie hears his ideas John Wood has every reason to be pleased. He has...
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Agony aunt
Q A tutor in our department suffers from BO. We had ignored the problem, but a student has complained that seminars are intolerable. What should we do? A First, consider who has what problem. The...
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Caution
Universities have been advised to beef up their network security procedures after a wave of commercially destructive attacks on popular websites in the United States last week. The computer attacks...
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'Dogs' to be 'shot' at UCE
A radical policy to cut drop-out rates at the University of Central England could block access and lead to large-scale course closures, academics fear. One dean interpreted the policy as meaning that...
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Death knell rings for Ismail?
(Photograph) - Hundreds of students marched through Oxford this week in protest against the abolition of the maintenance grant and the introduction of tuition fees. Of more than 100 Oxford students...
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Mining starts Cornish explosion
Camborne School of Mines will move 15 miles to help form the hub of a new campus under the latest scheme for a Cornish university. Earth science, mining and engineering courses at Camborne will join...
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Three tiers for Blunkett's plan
Universities face their biggest challenge in 35 years as the government this week opened the door to institutional diversity, vocational foundation degrees, e-universities and differentiated tuition...
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Probe into business of qualification checks
The Data Protection Registrar's Office is intending to probe the relationship between the Higher Education Statistics Agency and Experian, which plans to run a commercial service to check whether job...
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Heavenly home
On telephoning the Lord Chancellor's Office to inquire as to the coming into operation of a recent Act of Parliament, I was told by a lady with a pleasant Irish brogue that it would happen at...
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Wellcome governor under investigation
The furore surrounding Roy Anderson, the suspended professor of zoology at Oxford University and a governor of the Wellcome Trust, has intensified as it emerged his business interests are under...
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Go-ahead for Scots football academy
Heriot-Watt University and Heart of Midlothian football club are to create a Pounds 5 million football academy. The Hearts board said this week that the academy would allow rising stars "to combine...