Eyewitness: Ottoman history revisited
The fall of Constantinople to the marauding Turks was one of the darkest days in Christendom, heralding centuries of oppression and bloody rule by Islamic forces. That is, at least, how many...
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World View: Who can you trust online?
The US and Japan need to boost public confidence in e-business if it is to thrive, writes Dorothy Zinberg What constitutes trust in everyday life? One of the no-answer topics on which one can...
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World watch
Ashghabat President Saparmyrat Niyazov of Turkmenistan has doubled all student grants in honour of the fifth anniversary of his country's neutrality. University students will receive 412,000 manats (...
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Designing a car that will keep on going
What will the car of the future look like? It is impossible to say for sure, but hopefully it will be cheaper, safer and more efficient. A research project at Lancaster University began with a game...
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Young Business Achiever of the Year
Michelle Mone, Young Business Achiever of the Year and designer of the revolutionary Ultimo gel bra, lent her support at the launch of Glasgow Caledonian University's Caledonian Business School. The...
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Map winner
Digimap, the vector mapping service provided by Edina (Edinburgh Data and Information Access) has won the Association for Geographic Information's Award for Technological Progress for 2000. Digimap...
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Richer access
The University of the West of England is to instal Hyperion, the latest digital media archive sub-system, to add to its Unicorn Collection Management System. The installation will support the...
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Italian style
An estimated 20,000 unemployed university graduates in Italy's economically depressed south will be offered six to 12-month training courses in fields connected to new technologies and the new...
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Forward partner
Heriot-Watt University has agreed a new commercialisation partnership with a private technology and management company that it believes is unique in Scotland. The Forward Group will not only provide...
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Trans-Pacific cable speeds up dons' debate
A new submarine trans-Pacific cable network, capable of carrying 40 gigabits a second, will soon give ߣߣÊÓƵn academics faster access to colleagues in North America. The Southern Cross Cable...
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Photonics MSc secures funding
Heriot-Watt and St Andrews universities have won a £2 million, five-year funding package for a new masters programme for Scotland's booming photonics telecommunications industry. The MSc in photonics...
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Equality will lead to a wider talent pool for society
To judge from the bold slogans of employers advertising for staff in this newspaper, equality of opportunity has arrived or is being striven for in a vast range of British universities. But our...
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Existing law on animal use must be enforced
The British statute book contains many laws to protect people and businesses. There are even some to protect animals. Now there is pressure for new legislation to guarantee the safety of people who...
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Selfless or selfish - if you can help, you're in
Despite most VSO volunteers working in education, there is still a shortage of primary teachers, says Mark Goldring. Much has been made in the press recently of Voluntary Service Overseas's new brand...
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Union demands can only damage our institute
Paul Clark regrets calls for changes to a body that aims to support and give status to teaching professionals. The Institute for Learning and Teaching is disappointed by the decisions of the recent...