Top ten:Computer Books
The British Library has given Pounds 400,000 for research on the impact of the Internet on libraries and information provision. Five of the ten successful bids came from universities: Strathclyde,...
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Review of Lefkowitz
Angela Pinter's strange, disjointed and hostile letter (THES, September 5) regarding my review of Bernard Lefkowitz's book on gang rape is hard to untangle. The King's Cross rape which she seems so...
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Teaching institute
A major proposal in the Dearing report is the creation of an Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, thus enhancing the status of teaching and learning. The institute's three main...
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Teaching institute
Tony Tysome has misinterpreted my comments (THES, August 22). The Higher Education Quality Council study he refers to will not say that "credit transfer has no future" nor that it is a "dead concept...
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Distant solution
Funding seems to rule in most educational institutions. An establishment does what it can afford and adapts to the changing world, not by attempting to apply the findings from recent research into...
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Don's Diary
Monday In the evening I fly to Sao Paulo where, in partnership with Martins Fontes, the Brazilian publisher and bookseller, Cambridge University Press is opening a bookshop. This will be the second...
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'World class' means domestic diversity
WHAT does it mean to be "world class", the national objective for higher education recommended by the Dearing committee? The reasons for its vision of our universities becoming exponents of leading...
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Cyber scribes:Computer Books
Writers and readers will meet and collaborate online at events and workshops initiated by the trAce International Online Writing Community and East Midlands Arts. The project, at Nottingham Trent...
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Web windfall:Computer Books
Students on Middlesex University's design for interactive media MA course won a competition to design a web site for Apple Computer. See Cyderspace at www.ceamdx.ac.uk/DandAD or www.ines.com/apple....
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VR winners:Computer Books
Virtual Production Planner software from Colt VR goes to the two winners of our June competition, John Smithson of Newcastle College and M. Wright of the University of Teesside. "The Eurovision Song...
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Strathclyde and Orange map videophone future:Computer Books
one day your mobile phone may show you movies and TV news, or help you find your way in an unfamiliar city centre. Researchers at Strathclyde University are taking a lead in developing video...
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Language, freedom to think and all that jazz:Computer Books
Mary Boland reports on a research lab funded by electronics giant Sony that is pursuing the secrets of communication - among other things Why do we love one kind of music and loathe another? What do...
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From Umbria to everywhere:Computer Books
Seven hilltop castles in Umbria are the nerve centres of a virtual university which will begin delivering courses this autumn to students across the globe. About 100 postgraduates will take a course...
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Beckett pulls no science punches
Scientists bemoaned the continuing dearth of new government money for science at the British Association's meeting in Leeds this week. This was despite an assurance from Margaret Beckett, president...
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US wages a books war
An association representing 90 per cent of university and college bookshops in the United States has sued Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press for charging them higher wholesale...