The networked campus
IT is coming of age in higher education. As Kam Patel writes, it is no longer just for email, it is the backbone of an electronic academic community Within just a few years, computers have quietly...
Search
-
-
Don's diary
Sunday I am away for the next five weeks on a placement at The THES to find out more about how the media works and how academics can bridge the gap between the press and universities. It has been a...
-
Carol Adams
Teachers must be happy to know that before they became the chief professional concern of Carol Adams, newly appointed chief executive of the General Teaching Council, it was the crown jewels....
-
The THES Diary
Drink-tank The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has learned a thing or two about targeted lobbying and is putting it into effect at this year's party conferences. Its fringe meeting at...
-
On the move
Phil Harris, joint director of the centre for corporate and public affairs at Manchester Metropolitan University, has been elected chair of the Academy of Marketing. He succeeds David Carson. Deborah...
-
Glittering prizes
The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded a patron's medal to James Woodburn, senior lecturer in anthropology at the London School of Economics; the Rivers Memorial Medal to Caroline Humphrey,...
-
Turkmenistan banks on silk road tourism
Turkmenistan has two main resources - fossil fuels and the tourist potential of the ancient Silk Road. But both have their down side. Until new (and politically controversial) pipelines are built,...
-
New York
Time magazine has selected the University of Southern California as its "College of the Year" for 1999. Time said the university, often seen as a second choice for students who failed to get into...
-
Tunis
About 500 students from the francophone west African state of Guinea staged a peaceful demonstration outside the country's embassy in Tunis claiming their grants have not been paid for five months....
-
Penang
University Sains Malaysia has rejected a student council claim that 80 per cent of students are against mixed-race roomin. Officials said it was "absurd" to speak for 14,000 students on the basis of...
-
Pilgrims with tales to tell
Harvey J. Kaye joined historians on the road to Galicia this summer to debate where their work was leading morally and politically I came away from the second international congress of "History under...
-
Cuba softens line on economist
MONTREAL. Cuba's attitude to critical academics may be easing only months after the jailing of four dissidents who questioned the country's economic and political policies. A Cuban professor who...
-
Body found in well may be don's
ROME. The body of one of Italy's most eminent economists, who mysteriously disappeared 12 years ago, may be at the bottom of a well near Rome, according to a lawyer who bought the land. Federico...
-
Derrida among the dingos
MELBOURNE. Jacques Derrida, the famed French philosopher and cultural theorist, drew crowds in their thousands when he visited Melbourne and Sydney last week. The powerful proponent of deconstruction...
-
Unesco raises the profile of statistics
PARIS. A British academic is in charge of transforming Unesco's statistics division into a semi-autonomous institute that will give world leaders data to aid decision-making. Denise Lievesley, former...