De Montfort refashions Soviet satellites
University leaders in St Petersburg are working with a British university to improve the city's academic communications by using spare capacity on old Soviet military satellites. The Pounds 72,000...
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IT benefits 'may not save cash'
Information technology can enhance education but does not always save money, vice chancellors and other policy-makers will be told at a meeting in London on January 22. The decision-makers will hear...
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Leeds opens front line on unpublished texts
Education's grey literature is getting organised. Preprints and reports on education and training that have not yet appeared in printed journals, and perhaps never will, are to be collected and...
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Mechanical mistake
The THES December issue reported that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers are considering merging. It is the Institution...
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Dogs reservoir
Good news for collectors of the academic acronym with the creation of a new designation, that of Directors Of Graduate Study in the graduate school at Royal Holloway, University of London. No doubt...
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Evita overture
Nice try, but we do not expect the University of Wolverhampton to get much response from its invitation to Madonna and Jimmy Nail, stars of the film Evita, to enrol on their new degree course in...
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Students test Israeli smartcard
Bar-ilan University is the first testbed for a smartcard that Israel's national communication company Bezek hopes to introduce nationally. The smartcard, which looks like a credit card and contains a...
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Bibliographic software on a small budget
CITATION 7 Oberon Resources, Distributed in the UK by Michael Quinion Associates, +44 1454 411128, sales@quinion. demon.co.uk Single user Pounds 69.95+VAT; 10-user network pack Pounds 249.95+VAT....
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Victorian splendour brought up-to-date
VICTORIAN DATABASE Compiled and edited by Brahma Chaudhuri, James Mulvihill and Fred Radford LITIRDatabase, c/o Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada. Email: litir@gpu.srv. ualberta.ca...
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Copyright, wrongs and bits between
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Higher and further education
Almost all British academics in higher and further education think students' work is being harmed by hardship, and amajority think that the standing of British higher education is lower than in 1980...
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Foetal position
(Photograph) - Foetal position: As Parliament prepares to debate the second reading of a bill designed to tighten the 1967 Abortion Act, Pro-Life groups eager to propel the issue up the political...
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Pay-as-you-go favoured
Students and employers would make a bigger contribution to higher education funding under one of three financial models for the future of the sector being considered by Sir Ron Dearing's committee of...
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A-level English passes off the mark
More than 5,000 English A-level candidates were awarded invalid and inflated grades in 1996, with many candidates given passes when they should have failed. The Oxford and Cambridge School...
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Scots want single cash body
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has called for a single funding body for further and higher education in Scotland. In its evidence to the Dearing committee, SHEFC says further education...