South African v-cs warn of 'tertiary apartheid'
South Africa's council on higher education this week began reviewing radical reforms for the country's universities and technikons amid warnings from vice-chancellors of a return to tertiary...
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Peruvian students stage silent protest
(Photograph) - Peruvian university students, with their mouths taped shut, stage a silent protest in Lima against last month's controversial election between president Alberto Fujimori and Alejandro...
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E-learning is failing the quality control test
Online education packages developed by British universities are not up to the standards required by the government's flagship University for Industry initiative, writes Alison Goddard. Some 1,500...
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Nursery children lured to ultra-right Russian party
When the Vladimir State Technical University in Russia organised a special competition to mark the 55th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the books awarded as prizes to the winners were...
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Italy sets sites on amore
Italian students can now consult a web portal that claims to address all their information needs, writes Paul Bompard. At www.campusweb.it, students can view bulletins on research, announcements of...
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Virtual cafe gives taste of campus
Staffordshire University has launched a global learning initiative that aims to provide students with a virtual campus experience. The Off Campus initiative, developed by the university's Learning...
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Monks' habits back in fashion
A 6th-century monk may offer new and robust frameworks for the advent of enlightenment in the European e-business age. Angela Rae, senior lecturer in human resource management at the University of...
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easyJet chief backs venture
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet and easyGroup, has backed a pioneering e-business portfolio launched by the Robert Gordon University. Speaking to an audience of businesspeople in...
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Spielberg conducts cyber seminar first
Director Steven Spielberg took time off from filming his new feature, The Boys in the Band, to present the first in a series of virtual masterclasses for Liverpool media students via the internet...
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Displays of talent
A European consortium of academics and commercial companies is pushing ahead with the development of lower-cost and environmentally friendly display screens. The BigFED (Field Emission Displays)...
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Euro e-business
A print and online publishing venture was launched last week with the aim of highlighting Europe's perspective on global management and business issues. European Business Forum is a joint venture...
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OED access
The Oxford English Dictionary Online is now available at a reduced cost to further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Students and staff will benefit from unlimited...
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Oxbridge rancour not the route to broader system
Labour, it was said last week, needs "new enemies" as it bids to regain popular support from the demagogically inclined leader of the opposition, William Hague. And chancellor Gordon Brown's attack...
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A burden for youth
Andrew Oswald's article contains a fatal flaw. He writes that undergraduates should pay fees as their future reward will be greater, arguing that, after graduation, "my students will earn more than...
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Free minds by cutting the red tape of giving
US-style philanthropy would give our universities the boost they need to stay competitive, C. Duncan Rice says Each year Americans give more to charity than the rest of the world put together. The...