Net archive speaks volumes
Scholars of Romance languages have a new facility for research via the internet. The Biblioteca Angelo Monteverdi at Rome's La Sapienza University has set up a vast digital archive of original works...
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Rapid-response unit tackles complaints
Loughborough University has embraced the rapidly developing service culture in higher education with an early-warning system to handle complaints and inquiries. Janet Ireland, customer services...
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Pounds 600,000 for online training in Africa
Members of human rights groups in southern Africa are to be trained online by a team of experts based at Oxford University's department for continuing education, thanks to an award of over Pounds 600...
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Forward with Leeds
Leeds University is developing a specialist computer software company as a result of its Pounds 20 million partnership with the Forward Group. The company, Virtual Working Systems, designs and tests...
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Measure of success
A tiny measuring device developed by researchers at St Andrews University has won an international award for commercial excellence. Timewarp, a device invented by Derryck Reid and Wilson Sibbett of...
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Now you see it...
The "disappearing computer" is the theme of the second Physical and Tangible Interaction workshop during the i3Net Spring Days in Athens from March 1-3. The workshop will focus on predictions that...
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Robots with a gentle touch
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University's department of mechanical and chemical engineering are using flexible materials to allow robots to grasp or select delicate objects without damaging them. The...
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Sell excellence overseas, not mass mediocrity
Fewer overseas students are opting to study in Britain just when the government has set targets for increased numbers. Some fall in recruitment from Southeast Asia was to be expected because of the...
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'The university' is dead, long live the university
The old notion of the university is gone. Its reinvention, says Ronald Barnett, brings new responsibilities Today, the university lives with multiple callings. The injunctions multiply: high-quality...
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Fly will steal the show
Steve Farrar looks at research sure to grab the limelight at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting next week. The tiny brown fruit fly is seldom welcomed, often ignored....
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Search for Aids vaccine turns to brothels
A microbiologist thinks that a group of Kenyan prostitutes could hold the key to defeating Aids. Philip Fine reports. A mysterious resistance to HIV by a group of Kenyan prostitutes has provided the...
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Gamma burst gang of four
A remarkable cosmic phenomenon that has baffled astronomers may provide fresh evidence of the universe's most violent accident - the collision of two neutron stars. Scientists from the Institute for...
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Redcoats were a fearsome force
History has done the redcoats a disservice. New research is sweeping away the outdated image of the British soldier who fought in colonial America as a poorly motivated mercenary handicapped by...
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Cutting edge
Greenpeace research into PVC toys that leach harmful chemicals into children's mouths has led to a European product ban. On December 9 1999 the European Commission adopted its first emergency product...
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Cash crisis in universities
Latest projections show the higher education sector on the brink of deficit, prompting universities to turn to the financial markets for cash. Revised forecasts from the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding...