Can fee gift halt muscle drain?
Canadian universities will offer full-tuition athletics scholarships in a move that shifts them closer to their US neighbours. The Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union has found a compromise over...
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Mugabe spin doctor quizzed over leave
South Africa's University of the Wi****ersrand has given Jonathan Moyo, the controversial election campaign manager for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's ruling party, until today to explain a...
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Spain faces IT skills headache
Barcelona British entrepreneur Paul Metcalf is finding it hard to recruit the technical staff he needs for NonStopYacht.com, the company he is setting up in Barcelona. Spanish employers share his...
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Minister sued for reforms barter
Australian education minister David Kemp is being sued over claims that he has contravened the government's Workplace Relations Act by trying to coerce universities into adopting anti-union policies...
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Sweden leads world into new age of learning
Uppsala University, founded in 1477, might be Sweden's oldest, but its new learning lab means it is looking towards the future. The facility is part of the Swedish Learning Lab (SLL), a collaborative...
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Pounds 2 million given for scholarships
Canadian company Nortel Networks is to spend Pounds 2 million on university scholarships and will create 2,000 high-technology jobs in Europe this year, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The company's aim is to...
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Online site aids search for grads
Employers throughout Ireland can now headhunt graduates online through a new website. Careers advisers at Northern Ireland's two universities believe the site will help combat the province's skills...
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Surrey project wins Nasa cash
A technology spin-off from the University of Surrey has won a contract from American space agency Nasa to research the development of a worldwide communications standard based on internet protocols (...
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Name game
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is meeting in Japan next Friday to decide on the process for creating new generic top-level domains. Icann, which is in charge of...
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Oxford bagged
A Queensland inventor who changed his name by deed poll to Oxford University in an attempt to prove he has the right to keep the domain name www.oxford-university.com has lost his case. A World...
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Adelaide boost
Adelaide University is to open a new physics facility with what is thought to be the largest supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere. The A$3.6 million (Pounds 2.38 million) facility - the...
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Talent show
A graduate show targeted at employers of creative talent is being launched on Monday. "New Blood", at the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane, London, will bring together the work of graduates from more...
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Language move
A new European Union funding programme aimed at boosting e-commerce is set to increase the number of websites hosted in Europe, especially those that use languages other than English. The EU wants to...
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Net values
The internet may not be the global price-cutting tool it was thought to be, according to a recent study. Erik Brynjolfsson, associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-director of...
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Bath expansion
Ingenta, the Bath University spin-off internet gateway company, is to buy the Publishers Communication Group. PCG provides marketing services to publishers; negotiating electronic licensing...