Full coverage: Northern Europe

30.05.2005 The BBC, Channel 4, the Open University and the British Film Institute BFI) have launched the Creative Archive, an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives.

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.

27.05.2005 In a 17-minute podcast, Si Brindley, a Britisher, can learn the numbers 1-10 and the days of the week in Shona, the main language of Zimbabwe.

26.05.2005 The city of Portsmouth with its 186,000 people has devised a novel solution for its traffic problem - with a state-of-the-art communication system in place, nobody has to wait at the bus stop for the buses to come.

20.05.2005 University of Glasgow and Bristol researchers have detected TV watching as one of the eight factors, ncluding lack of sleep and parental obesity, for child obesity.

16.05.2005 BECTA's recent research on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of ICT systems in schools has been welcomed by the Open Source Consortium (OSC) and Schoolforge UK.