Project aims to lift internet experience
Design, engineering and computing researchers have teamed up with British Telecom to look at how people are responding to businesses on the internet. Nicola Millard, manager of BT's customer contact...
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Unions object to online scheme
The heads of five academic unions have called for a moratorium on Universitas 21's plans to develop online courses. The general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, David Triesman,...
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Campus offers taster
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is enrolling pupils as part-time students in an online project aimed at combating the low local rate of higher education participation. Dundee has a significantly...
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Hi-tech Lecce puts south on the map
The University of Lecce, in southern Italy, is emerging as a global centre of excellence for research in avant-garde engineering, particularly in the use of nanotechnologies and new materials. A £600...
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Initiative meets the needs of disabled
A Pounds 1 million centre offering technology solutions for disabled students will be launched by the Open University this autumn. The Centre for Assistive Technology and Enabling Research (Cater)...
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Laptops prompt access rethink
Student demand for wireless network access is set to increase significantly, forcing universities to offer the facility to remain competitive, experts predict. Tony Chabot, of Birmingham University's...
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Help them to come and have their eyes opened
Support for black southern Africans to study in the UK needs continued backing, says David Simon. In the dark days of apartheid and white minority rule in southern Africa, there was broad support...
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Make it better or don't make it
To survive in the new economy, businesses must show how they enhance our lives, argues James Wilsdon. It was like a carefully planned military operation. At strategic locations across the United...
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Pay up now or else...
If the government won't pay, higher education will have to seek funds elsewhere, says William Taylor. Today, the main committee of Universities UK discusses the final report of its Funding Options...
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Why I... think history needs a moral purpose
History is at war again. Having once more defended his subject against the sustained assault of postmodernist aggressors, Richard Evans's book on the David Irving libel trial is out this month. It...
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E-culture marches on
The government is putting financial muscle behind e-science, with £98 million going to a range of projects. Caroline Davis reports. The government says that e-science is "science increasingly done...
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Carbon emissions could be lost in the trees and seas
Tennessee scientists are exploring methods to combat global warming by 'locking up' carbon. Steve Farrar reports. Could genetically superior poplars that suck more carbon dioxide from the air than...
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Nosing for cash in Congress's trough
Political lobbying for funds, or pork barrelling, is not helping research in the United States, says James Savage. Academic pork barrelling is all the rage in American higher education these days. In...
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How to... Ensure a modifier does not dangle
The tide has turned on grammar in schools, says Richard Hudson. But are lecturers ready for the new first-year students? Grammar teaching is suddenly in fashion again, with two practical imperatives...
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'False claim' dispute pits research against industry
ߣߣÊÓƵ's Securities and Investment Commission has launched an investigation into a leading academic's complaints about claims made by a university-linked biotechnology company. The commission is...