(Photograph) - Outline of the future: Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in London for the launch of his book Being Digital. An obsessive...
University interest in bidding for the Natural Resources Institute could be damaged by the cuts it will undergo over the next year, according to Greenwich University, one of the bidders. Eight groups...
(Photograph) - All my own work: Sonja Kielty, Bradford University Gallery II visual arts assistant with Frank Darnley's burnished steel sculpture, "The Unfettered Spirit of DIY", part of his ten-...
Attempts by British universities to capture part of the market for first and second degrees in Israel have led the Israeli government to issue a warning to students over non-approved courses. The...
Welsh universities and colleges are considering plans for a new funding system for part-time higher education courses. A consultation paper issued by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales...
Whatever the outcome of Labour's conference on Clause Four tomorrow, Brian Brivati argues that the debate has illustrated the power of the proceduralists and the eclipse of the ideologues. We know...
With the average age of Internet users 23 and declining, Nicholas Negroponte has produced a guide for parents lost in cyberspace. Kam Patel reports. Within minutes of arriving at the Langham Hilton...
Californians are anxious these days. Calamities of Biblical proportions bedevil the state. The worst flooding in memory occurred this year, the worst fires are but yesterday and will return tomorrow...
The article by Pat Younge (April 7) on the experiences of black and other minority ethnic students demonstrates the need for a shift of attention from access to pedagogy in debates about equality of...
In the week after the leaders of British universities met to debate their roles in "Cities of Learning", it is salutary to consider the group of urban universities in the United States that are...
Perhaps the emergence of democracy in East Asia is not so different from the western experience during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In both cases, "social changes induced by rapid economic...
Gail Vines meets Emily Martin, one of America's most original anthropologists. Why, all of a sudden, is "the body" such a hot topic in academic circles? Emily Martin, professor of anthropology at...
Using neural networks to mimic the way the brain works brings us no closer to understanding consciousness, argues David Salt. Neural network technology seems to cause rational researchers to start...
Kam Patel talks to Richard Dawkins, the zoologist who believes that one day pigs could be made to fly. Richard Dawkins laughs a little as he recalls a recent conversation he had with a colleague. The...
FRIDAY. Fly to Warsaw with colleague. Met at airport by Polorbis travel courier with rail tickets. Ignore beggars at Central Station (it is getting more like London every day), and board Pieniny...