Glass class
(Photograph) - Kirsteen Aubrey displays her work for Public Arts Laboratory, an interactive exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester until February 28. Visitors enter the world...
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Stressed, bored, sober and selfish
Stress continues to rise among American students, especially females, says a national survey. Researchers blame a faster lifestyle, high expectations and the need to work part-time to pay tuition...
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Turks cite Islamic threat and sack 53
Turkish universities have sacked 53 academics in the largest purge of staff by the country's ruling higher education authority in recent years. The expulsions were carried out by the authority's...
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ߣߣÊÓƵn bosses find graduate applicants deficient
More than three in every four graduates from ߣߣÊÓƵ's universities and technical colleges are unsuitable for the jobs they apply for, according to a national survey of employers. New graduates...
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Students stranded in illegal limbo
Many Palestinian students remain cut off from their homes three months after a "safe passage" allowing them to travel between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was opened by the Israeli authorities. "...
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Study finds more to bug than technology
Organisations that rose to the challenge presented by the millennium bug could use similar strategies to ensure other wide-ranging changes happen more smoothly, according to research published by...
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Global audience for Jewish studies
Israel's Bar-Ilan University claims to be the only world-class university offering online credit courses in Jewish studies. The Virtual Jewish University was launched internationally last autumn,...
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Rapid change leaves Europe lagging behind
A wake-up call to European decision-makers on the need for rapid transformation in "knowledge acquisition" was delivered at a conference in Brussels last week. The Futures Project conference,...
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Task force to review qualifications
Scotland's Knowledge Economy Task Force, set up by enterprise and lifelong learning minister Henry McLeish, is set to debate whether higher education should include inbuilt professional accreditation...
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Patently obvious
A free patent search service for academic and industrial researchers is being made available on the internet by the European Patent Organisation, writes Kam Patel. Kathrina Maes of the Vienna-based...
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Commercial innovation
The University of Manchester this week launched a business that will help researchers commercialise technology and form their own spin-off companies. "The launch of Manchester Innovation Ltd shows we...
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Managers' masterclass
Recent research shows that about 80 per cent of IT projects fail to deliver stated business benefits because the "human dimension" has not been managed effectively. To counter this, the British...
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Global learning
Hardware and software corporations are cooperating in a Pounds 310 million worldwide initiative to help teachers and trainee teachers effectively apply computer technology to improve student learning...
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Thinking aloud
Simon Schaffer, lecturer in the history of science at the University of Cambridge, has created a series of linked exhibitions and books that explore perception and communication in the digital age....
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Beowulf first
The British Library is releasing Electronic Beowulf on CD-Rom, in the wake of Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of the Anglo-Saxon text. The two-CD set includes the first complete colour...