Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education鈥檚 reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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Africa鈥檚 mobile phone e-learning transformation
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education鈥檚 reach and quality?
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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Reducing animal testing: Industry commits to action programme, Commission tables guidelines for labelling cosmetics as 鈥渘ot tested on animals鈥
Brussels, 21 June 2006 The fight against animal testing gets more concrete. Initiated by the European Commission, the new “European Partnership on Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing...
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So many aspirant doctors, so little time
EUA report uncovers global commonalities in PhD education. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded 拢765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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Keep the cream, Willetts tells 'cash cow' business schools
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes
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European Advisory Group on Aerospace outlines way forward for industry
Brussels, 16 July 2002 The High-Level European Advisory Group on Aerospace today presented its report, Strategic Aerospace Review for the 21 st Century (STAR 21) to the President of the European...
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European industry leaders and EU policymakers meet to plan for security research
Brussels, 7 octobre 2003 The European Commission has kick-started the development of a European security research programme. A group of selected personalities from industry, government and academia...
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European industry leaders and EU policymakers meet to plan for security research
Brussels, 7 octobre 2003 The European Commission has kick-started the development of a European security research programme. A group of selected personalities from industry, government and academia...
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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International students like to be where someone knows their name
Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports
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Bruising but beneficial
The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
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Italians rethink industry research links
Italian universities are showing signs of backing away from their strategy of developing industrially-orientated undergraduate courses in favour of a general education followed by specialist...