Jane Mulkerrans edits the Cambridge student magazine Varsity and is a second-year student in social and political sciences at New Hall, one of Cambridge's three single-sex colleges Women's colleges...
Michelangelo's sculptures are being scanned to make a near perfect archive, Paul Bompard reports A team of scientists from Stanford University began work on Tuesday in Florence on an ambitious laser-...
The world's first internet-based patent auction market was launched this week to bring together the owners of patents - including universities - and companies looking to commercialise research. Nir...
The University of Exeter has launched a range of courses that can be studied over the internet as well as by more traditional means. Designed for people who cannot easily travel, the courses can...
Recent work by printmaker Sue Gollifer, who heads the Computers and Teaching Initiative centre for art and design at the University of Brighton, will be shown at the Colville Place Gallery (+44 171...
Workplace Technologies has been appointed to provide the essential communications infrastructure for Scotland's University of the Highlands and Islands, using technology from Cisco Systems. The...
LEARN (Link Environmental and Academic Research Network) launched a website (www.swcl. org/learn/) on Wednesday that allows organisations to "commission" research from university and college students...
Information technology research in the United States was this week singled out for a $366 million, or 28 per cent, budget boost. Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Lecturers are trying to encourage students to take responsibility for their study. But do students understand the changes that are taking place? asks Olga Wojtas The past decade has seen a dramatic...
Leeds Metropolitan University has spent Pounds 20 million on a flexible learning centre offering 24-hour access to multimedia and other learning services. Most of the facilities at the Yorkshire city...
Essex University has announced awards in the first round of its Pounds 25,000 annual teaching and learning innovation fund. Projects will receive backing of up to Pounds 5,000 to buy staff teaching...
Napier University has set itself the goal of providing off-campus teaching for 10,000 students by 2008. It has adapted a software system for discussions between students and tutors under its Napier...
Dundee University students are being encouraged to use the web to sharpen their skills for study and work. A new university intranet website, Advance@ Dundee, aims to provide multidisciplinary...
Is online learning a lonely, isolated business or is the internet a friendly technology that builds virtual classrooms with human contact? The email exchange between Open University tutor Robin...
Universities could cash in under plans to fund research projects through the issue of Eurobonds. Centre-left politicians in Italy have suggested that cash could be raised by the sale of bonds issued...