W3C maths release
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. MathML 2.0, an XML application, provides encoding mathematical notation and...
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Pioneers leave trail to follow
The 29 postgraduate students on Form-Ami, an innovative course in advanced multimedia and information technology, are truly at the cutting edge. As pioneers in the European Commission's initiative to...
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Global trade could profit all, given the political will
The internationalisation of education services has yet to receive the detailed attention foreshadowed by the World Trade Organisation more than two years ago. A focus on macroeconomic policy,...
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Latest UK news
Academics fill ranks of people's peers Edinburgh University vice-chancellor Sir Stewart Sutherland and former government chief scientist Sir Robert May are among the first 15 “people’s” peers. Also...
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Latest international news
Austrian tenure talks falter Talks between the Austrian government and university teachers over plans to restrict academic tenure have broken down. The government believes new employment conditions,...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom will fall by 700,000 over the next 10 years, according to a Warwick University study commissioned by the government. BMW yesterday...
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Higher education appointments
University of Strathclyde Ian Smith will succeed Douglas Weir as dean of the faculty of education. Leslie Sheldon , director of the English language teaching division at the University of Strathclyde...
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Higher education awards
University of Strathclyde Neil McGarvey , politics division, has been awarded the United Kingdom Public Administration Consortium Essay Competition - the prize, an expenses paid visit to Athens to...
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Laurie Taylor
From : dave.boswell@uttoxeter. ac.uk To : g.lapping@poppleton.ac.uk Hi, Gordon. Remember me? Dave Boswell. Class of '76. I did your third-year option on Roland Barthes. Long, red, straggly beard (...
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Letter: Basic economics
I had to laugh in disbelief at Roger Brown's article misleading entitled "We must get back to basics" (Soapbox, THES , April 13). It was about deciding on a quality assurance framework rather than "...
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Letter: Ancestral confusion
Simon Ditchfield's analysis of recruitment trends in history was interesting ("It pays to help the public to meet the ancestors", THES , April 20), but he is wrong about the history pedigree of the...
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Letter: Missing targets (1)
I was pleased to read in Lionel Kochan's review of The Journal of Holocaust Education ("Holocaust engulfs the Jews' story", THES , April 20), an acknowledgement of the critical engagement this...
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Letter: Missing targets (2)
Kathy Chater seems to want the Family and Community History to be a journal providing a context for her and her pupils' genealogical interests in individual ancestors ("Abstracted ancestors", Books,...
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Letter: Private grillings (1)
There is no perfect method of examining a PhD thesis and the thesis's author and I appreciate that the Swedish system advocated by David Stephens has many merits (Why I..., THES , April 20). His use...
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Letter: Private grillings (2)
It was reported that "there are no systematic training schemes for supervisors outside a handful of isolated and unconnected skills workshops" ("New PhD to attract overseas students", THES , April 13...