A clutch of British universities are to play a major role in a ground-breaking international research initiative aimed at making the digital library a reality for academics worldwide. The first six...
Staff and students at St Andrews University have clashed over honouring QC Donald Findlay who recently resigned as vice- chairman of Rangers football club after leading a sectarian singalong. Mr...
Scottish opposition parties will next week continue their bid to have tuition fees scrapped north of the border, despite an imminent review of student support, writes Olga Wojtas. Scottish Liberal...
A group from University College London is behind the first satellite to be launched in the European Space Agency's new Living Planet programme for earth observation. Called Cryosat, the satellite...
Ministers must pledge hundreds of millions of pounds more than they have already committed to expansion in further education if they are to realise their vision for a lifelong learning revolution,...
Further education colleges will have a greater say in franchising arrangements under plans developed by funding council chiefs. The Higher Education Funding Council for England wants universities and...
An Pounds 11 million learning and teaching research programme is being mounted by the Economic and Social Research Council. Director Charles Desforges of Exeter University said that a large-scale...
Collaboration with business should be recognised as a core activity of higher education in the same way that teaching and research are rewarded through assessment exercises, a Committee of Vice-...
The Australian senate has narrowly passed legislation that will ban pornographic images and illegal material such as bomb-making instructions from being transmitted over the internet. Universities...
Borders, the second biggest book retailer in the US, will next year equip its bookstores with facilities for digitally printing books on demand. Besides ensuring that titles are never out of stock,...
A third of US university students use the internet to visit sexually explicit sites and 11 per cent to visit sites that describe how to make or use illegal drugs. The good news is that communications...
At least six of Australia's universities have been blacklisted as sources of junk email by Microsoft-owned internet provider WebTV. External spammers have allegedly been using relay holes in their...
A consortium of French universities has used its purchasing power to slash the cost of electronic journal subscriptions in a landmark deal with the publisher Elsevier, University librarians are keen...
In the next media revolution audiences will rediscover their innate dramatic talents and make their own entertainment on a virtual stage, says Sharon Springel. Ours is an information-obsessed society...
Many THES readers believe that standards in higher education have fallen since 1990 but, unlike two years ago, those who do are now a minority. The survey also shows a tough attitude to low standards...