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...
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Labour paves way for community college bonanza
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...
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Why our research ties need no longer bind us
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...
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Diploma in disguise
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...
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Prejudice under another name
Academics manipulate research on the family to confirm their own prejudices, argues Frank Furedi Politicians and all-purpose busy-bodies find it impossible to avoid the temptation to hold forth on...
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Higher channels
John Davies beats a path through the schedules jungle (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Should western students and tourists keep out of the Amazon basin? This week's offering in C4's To the...
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When heritage becomes history
Can academics help save the historical monuments being targeted in ethnic conflicts? Steve Farrar reports The fall of the delicate limestone structure that arched over the river Neretva in Mostar was...