(Photograph) - Go to any ancient university and you will see, somewhere, portraits of its distinguished former scholars glowering down at you, writes Olga Wojtas. Now Edinburgh University has brought...
Menachem Mautner tells John Davies how teachinglaw in Israel has been affected by the battle over the state's political future It is Menachem Mautner's regret that in Israel the law and its...
Geographer David Livingstone launches a five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their...
How has internationally renowned Yiddish expert Dovid Katz found himself jobless and penniless on a Welsh hillside? Dan Cohn-Sherbok tells his story Alone in a tiny cottage in North Wales one of the...
A five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject Tracey Byrne is completing...
1. Harold Wilson. 2. Tommy Trip, from "The Adventure of Little Tommy Trip and his Dog Jouler" in Fables in Verse. London: John Newbery, 1758. 3. The Great Gatsby. 4. Queen Elizabeth II. 5. Woodrow...
(Photograph) - Disaster area: architecture students from Liverpool John Moores University spent a cold winter's night in the temporary structures that they had designed for use in natural disasters.
The University of Liverpool's Pounds 2.5 million refurbishment of the Harold Cohen Library has created a learning resources area equipped with 280 networked computers. The building, opened in 1938,...
The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has ordered Sony DVCAM format camcorders and VTRs from Newland Electronics for its School of Media and Communications, which is upgrading to digital...
Quantel has given Bournemouth University a Henry visual effects editor, worth Pounds 500,000. Skilled Henry operators can command high salaries in the film and television industries.
(Photograph) - An ill wind: a new student accommodation block at Bournemouth University lost part of its roof in gales this week. Students were forced to use a rear entrance upwind of the dangerous...
If you want your business to succeed, make creative use of the new digital media. That is the latest word from James Short, associate professor at the London Business School and guru of the early-...
The Rutherford Appleton laboratory in Oxfordshire will host the first European World Wide Web Consortium Office. It will lead a European Union-backed plan to encourage businesses to adopt Web...
New UK regulations for the first time provide specific copyright protection for the information in databases. The regulations, which came into force on January 1, implement a European Community...
Birmingham University is among the first partners in a Pounds 17.5 million IBM scheme designed to give up to 10,000 students in 150 universities and colleges worldwide essential skills for the widely...