Portal to give view on vita italiana
An alliance of 24 Italian universities has created an internet portal for Italian language and culture studies, which, from the next academic year, will also become a "virtual university". Italian...
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Students steer BMW
When a car dealership in Hampshire decided to move into selling clothes, it asked for help from second-year students at Winchester School of Art. Undergraduates on the fashion degree course were...
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Farmers' training scheme named online course of the year
A computer-based training course on organic farming, developed by the Scottish Agricultural College, has been named online course of the year by the Institute of Information Technology Training. The...
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Fears over web adverts
Concerns have been raised about the implications of advertising being allowed on the academic computer network. The Joint Information Systems Committee, which is responsible for the Joint Academic...
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Project to rethink software design
A research project involving five United Kingdom universities looks set to revolutionise the way that computer systems are designed. The £6.8 million research collaboration between City, Edinburgh,...
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Touching gift made for mother
A partially sighted mother now has a "touching record" of her baby thanks to Exeter Advanced Technologies at Exeter University's school of engineering and computer science. The firm helped build a...
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The hub and spokes of UK economic take-off
Top-up fees are not necessary with so much extra money going to higher education, argues David Blunkett. It is a year since my speech at the University of Greenwich. Some commentators described it as...
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Aston students vote for end to merger plans
Plans for a merger between Aston and Birmingham universities suffered a setback this week when Aston students signalled their opposition to the move. Two-thirds of students voted for an end to merger...
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Consent issue is threat to patents
The issue of consent that was at the centre of the Alder Hey scandal could pose a threat to gene patents. Academics at Sheffield University believe the question of gaining permission to exploit a...
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Sacked feminist historian sues
An academic scandal that rocked the Soros-founded Central European University comes before the courts in Hungary next week when a feminist historian dismissed from the gender studies programme sues...
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Only rich will study in London
London's universities are in danger of becoming closed to all but well-off students, claimed a student finance expert this week. Claire Callender, of South Bank University, said that unless measures...
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Why I ...believe the drive for equal opportunities needs new impetus
Janet Finch Vice-chancellor of Keele University and chair of the Joint Equality Steering Group I have agreed to chair the new Joint Equality Steering Group. It is the governing body for an initiative...
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The report falls short
Admissions reform is not enough to widen participation, say Louise Archer and Alistair Ross Last week's select committee report on higher education access focused on the wrong end of the problem....
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Have a million for nothing much
Why should the old universities receive more funding for doing less? asks Paul Mackney It is not often that you get rewarded for poor performance, but last Friday Tony Blair decided to make an...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Nobel prize-winning novelist who once commanded a rocket ship: " There was an area east of the Isle...