More than three in every four graduates from Australia's universities and technical colleges are unsuitable for the jobs they apply for, according to a national survey of employers. New graduates...
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. "...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Education secretary David Blunkett's major policy speech on higher education was deliberately given at Greenwich University, once Woolwich Polytechnic, where in 1965 Anthony Crosland famously slammed...
Universities must improve research partnerships. Huntington Williams believes the internet holds the key The university is divided between traditional teaching and its research mission. As a teaching...
This week, education secretary David Blunkett announced a new qualification, the two-year foundation degree, to start in 2001. The degrees, which will be in job-related subjects such as computing and...