Compass points
The British Museum has launched Compass Online, a website that provides access to its collections. Currently, 1,200 images of artefacts can be called up, each supported by information from the museum...
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Linux boost
IBM Education is offering European universities a free package of Linux solutions software. Linux, the popular open source server operating system and the platform of choice in many institutions, has...
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Channel Sex
Channel 4 has launched Generation Sex, a new sexual health website. The website, which went live on Monday, gives educational advice and support to young people who have questions about relationships...
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Voyeurs find entertainment in web misery rooms
The internet is providing a new and unintended form of entertainment for those who take pleasure in the misfortunes of others. Cancer, addiction, divorce -whatever your problem, there will be...
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A step down the road to the origin of our species
The achievement of the Human Genome Project is just the beginning of the real work, says John Maddox The near-completion of the Human Genome Project, announced this week, is and will remain a...
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From body to society, a new Enlightenment
With this week's genome fest centre stage, the week-long meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at the British Library (THES, June 23) has passed virtually unnoticed. Unsurprising. The...
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Out-of-doors activity
I am deeply disappointed by Laurie Taylor. When identifying cliches at examiners' meetings, he completely omitted the old stand-by "exit velocity" (THES, June 23). No exam board can be suitably...
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Openness must continue if we are all to benefit
This week the innermost machinery of human life has been revealed - not once but twice over, with announcements that public and private sector efforts at sequencing the human genome are "in essence"...
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Vietnam: JFK's stance
Peter Boyle dismisses the argument that President Kennedy would have escalated the war in Vietnam in the manner of his successor Lyndon Johnson, agreeing with the analysis provided by David Kaiser in...
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ILT joining incentive?
Given that the government's initial investment in the Institute for Learning and Teaching was on the assumption it would become a body largely funded by membership fees and given that it has...
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Fallacies, fees and PhDs
Kenneth Baker states that "universities started out as private, they should become so again - independent, free-standing institutions" ("Privateers on parade in Lords", THES, June 16). This...
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Fallacies, fees and PhDs
Academics I meet agree that lack of money is a primary reason for student drop-out. Also, the exclusive universities at the top of certain league tables are infamous for their rich, even royal...
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Fallacies, fees and PhDs
Do Oxbridge academics lose their rationality when writing on the emotive subject of Oxbridge entry? Vernon Bogdanor argues in The Mirror of June 20 that if "they are to continue to do good work (in...
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Pet criticisms
Well, I never! David Hockney says there's "no such thing as a dumb artist"; and that Cezanne (who stated "painting is optics") was "anti-optical" ("An optical disillusion", THES, June 16). True,...
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Scaling for fairness
A strength of our university system is that we are still able to debate ideas in an open-minded way. David Barron (Letters, THES, June 23) notes that my faculty board will be debating the merits of...