Give me a break
May I correct one or two details in your account of my impending leave in Cambridge (Diary, THES, May 19). I will not be taking a sabbatical, enjoyable as that might be, but adding some unused leave...
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Site in Tag's memory
The Open University science faculty has relaunched its website after growing demand from internet users. There are now links to all the OU's science sites, a summary of departmental research...
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Students on IT seesaw
The IT facilities and annual spend on information provision per full-time student vary dramatically between universities, according to statistics in The Student Book 2001. Cranfield has an annual...
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Info mechanics
A European Commission-funded consortium of learning institutions is launching a postgraduate degree to train specialists in the art and mechanics of information. FORM-AMI, whose members include...
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Tracing paper
Performance artist Stelarc (www.stelarc.va.com) will give the opening talk at "Incubation, the trAce" conference on writing and the internet from July 10-12 at Nottingham Trent University. Details:...
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Ink links to screen
A new application launched at this week's "Internet World" exhibition in London allows ink and audio from business presentations and education lectures to be broadcast over the internet. Handwritten...
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Puttnam sounds off
Lord Puttnam will be the key speaker at a conference on the role of audio in interactive media next Friday. "Sounding Off2" follows an event held at Bafta in November. The academy is running the...
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OU chief warns of internet hype
The heads of United Kingdom universities need to look up from their check-out tills and prepare for radical change by asking hard questions about their mission, values and purposes, according to Sir...
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Wanted - an angel flush with money
The path from scientist to entrepreneur rarely runs smooth, according to David Hall, director of the Thames Gateway Technology Centre at the University of East London's Docklands site. "A scientist...
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Research will not thrive without industry push
The well-found laboratory is the most hard-to-find laboratory in most universities. One recent spending initiative, the Joint Infrastructure Fund, brought in Pounds 800 million of first-rate...
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Linguasphere unites a thousand world voices
An online register of 21,000 languages provides a unique forum for linguists, writes David Dalby English is becoming so world dominant that increasing concern is being voiced in London and elsewhere...
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To win the global game, providers must pay to play
The World Education Market this week in Vancouver underlines the extent to which distance education and e-learning are now a global business, fuelled by desperation as traditional providers seek new...
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Bard, Beowulf and smart-arses
I agree with Jennifer Wallace (Soapbox, THES, May 19). Traditional exams in Shakespeare should be scrapped - and not only at Cambridge. Shakespeare should be reintegrated into his historical context...
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Bard, Beowulf and smart-arses
So Oxford University has finally decided to do away with compulsory Anglo-Saxon and the dreaded Beowulf (Soapbox, THES, May 12). Let me declare a lack of interest: I am not an English specialist, I...
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Bard, Beowulf and smart-arses
As a first-year Oxford undergraduate (admittedly a student of Valentine Cunningham), I am part of the last generation for whom Anglo-Saxon will be a compulsory part of the English course. What is so...