Ever watched a speaker hovering nervously by his PowerPoint comfort blanket? Jonathan Osborne has seen a few in his time... To PowerPoint or not to PowerPoint - that is the question. You can hardly...
Gordon Brewer says electronic libraries can help students on and off campus. University libraries are not what they used to be. Among the bookstacks, banks of PCs are a big attraction. For service...
The cost of joining the European Southern Observatory in a bid to put the United Kingdom back in astronomy's premier league spells big cuts in facilities elsewhere. The move is to be discussed at a "...
(Photograph) - St Luke, pictured in St Augustine's AD 580 copy of the gospels, is the oldest manuscript in the Parker library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The college is raising Pounds 20...
An academic fired by the University of Belgrade has spoken out about his shame in an open protest against the oppressive climate in Serbia. A letter from chemical engineer Obrad Savic was to be read...
Too many further education colleges are "coasting" along in quality and standards, lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks warned this week. Inspection reports showed a growing number of colleges...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a regal-sounding work by a satirist born in Bengal: " As I write, highly civilised human beings are...
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