Nearly 40 years ago, a British professor embarked on a career that has helped create distance-learning opportunities across Africa. Tony Dodds, who worked in open and distance learning in countries...
A baby boom is putting oil-rich Oman under pressure to upgrade education to guarantee jobs for local people and reduce the burgeoning economy's reliance on foreign workers. Three, and possibly four,...
St Andrews University hopes to spare researchers unnecessary visits to its campus to trawl through key church papers by creating an internet database. St Andrews has the world's finest collection of...
Researchers and scholars the world over will soon gain access to tens of thousands of rare and sought-after books from the vast archives of the Russian State Library via the internet. A £2 million...
Wap technology may spare German students a trip to the examination office to get their results - they will be able to call them up on their mobile phones instead. The higher education information...
The University of Bradford will be £36 million richer today after selling its share of spin-off company Bradford Particle Design. The sale of the spin-off to Californian pharmaceuticals company...
Carl Togneri, director of semi-conductors at Scottish Enterprise, has won a two-year secondment to the post of director of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. The SIE, a consortium of Dundee,...
Academics at Birmingham and Nottingham universities have created a new kind of electronic book that they believe could revolutionise scholarly writing and publishing. The multidimensional, coherent...
The assembly is committed to seeing higher education remain the linchpin of Wales, argues Jane Davidson. When Labour came into office in 1997, universities faced a crisis because the previous...
Last November I received a visit from Rosa, a first-year sociology undergraduate from another university. Rosa told me that she was looking to transfer to a different sociology department and wanted...
UK institutions operating abroad should encourage quality controls for the good of international education, says Ray Wild. The internationalisation of British higher education is a long and...
Cambridge's internal equality audit could be a model for higher education, says Gill Jackson. The government is well known for its commitment to widening access to our leading universities and to...
Researchers are being forced to recycle and duplicate papers in a system that rewards quantity with funds. Ard Jongsma reports One in five researchers recycles previously used results in response to...
Forget the homunculus - the brain may have a supervisory system that helps it to learn from success and to correct mistakes When the young executive asked the retiring CEO how he had learnt to make...
Scientists have extracted malarial DNA from the ancient skeleton of a Roman child. The discovery is by far the oldest direct evidence of the killer disease and will help scientists trace the spread...