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Two news stories on the University of the Highlands and Islands, currently the UHI Millenium Institute, report respectively that the organisation is on the brink of achieving full University status but this is subject to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recommendation which has asked for a stronger university structure.Regardless of the outcome, law firm Harper Macleod, is providing funding by for two three-year UHI PhD research projects, suggesting that commercial Scotland endorses it's long awaited and hard worked for 15th University.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1,500 Fellows are the cream of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry and commerce. This March it announced the election of 48 new UK and International Fellows elected after a rigorous four-stage selection process culminating in a ballot of the entire Fellowship. Each new Fellow of the RSE is recognised within his or her peer group as having achieved excellence within their discipline or profession.

Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

Scotland has innovative voice software skills, but Wales are the experts at listening to the sound of voices, so no surprise that innovative sound-mapping software has been developed at Cardiff University. Based on human hearing it aims to help architects design-out unwanted noise from proposed room design, through the use of audibility maps. Currently looking for a software company to develop the market, long term it could have architectural impact of comfortable conversation places.

In January this year, three-year-old Burntisland, Fife-based Burdica Biomed Ltd (BBL) signed a long-term partnership agreement with China giant, Sinopharm which has contracted to undertake the Chinese regulatory compliance process for products from the Burdica portfolio (expected to take a year or so to completion) and subsequently distribute the products in China, with Burdica marketing support.

Professor Pete Smith of Soils & Global Change at Aberdeen University will be amongst those examining what the outcomes of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen mean for Scotland and the UK, at a conference on "The new Climate Change and Energy Challenges for Scotland and the UK" in Edinburgh on Friday.

Gaming companies could be wasting their time (and a lot of money) pouring their efforts into the wrong channels. A new study indicates that the core gaming audience has a limited tolerance for messages directly from the publishers of games. What it fails to point out is that already games companies or publishers are already routing their time and money into getting coveted 'peer reviews' on social websites.

In the run up to looking at how anyone selects help to build a website or happily goes the DIY route, ComputeScotland takes a look an one site that anyone wanting to keep an eye on their lairs kingdom, will have inevitably stumbled over, that is Scotland archivist,'Scottie' and his comprehensive guide to all thing Scottish at the Rampant Scotland site.

Developer Day Scotland (Aka "DDD Scotland") is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events is intended for anyone involved in the software development or thesoftware engineering world. Delegates will typically be drawn from software professionals and soon-to-be professionals, including business analysts, designers, DBAs, software developers, software engineers, students, team leads, testers and not forgetting managers of all levels.

Creative Choices joins forces with the University of West Scotland in March to host a free "interactive extravaganza" event. Both organisations will invite students, employers and practitioners to the event for a day of workshops with industry experts on small business start-up or freelancing, seminars on the music business and the performing arts on March 9th

Ably assisted by Tony Robinson (who despite this, emerges as the fall guy) and judiciously edited by Clare Francis, author Leonora Soculitherz, takes her own ultra fashionably, chatty, confidential route through “Striping for Freedom” or “taking control of your own destiny by going it alone” as an entrepreneur.

The most joyous conclusion to Robert Edbert's search for a voice 2009, which he lost in 2006 after operations for thyroid cancer, has been answered by delivery of a prototype by CereProc this week. Another Scottish-made program React2 from Propeller Multimedia is providing voice therapy rehabilitation for stroke sufferers, while Affective Media uses tone and pitch of voice as indicators of driver's emotion for use with voice recognition software.

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