Talk is cheap on internet chatline
A German student has developed a computer program for cheap telephoning via the internet. Henrik Pfluger, 22, first hit on the idea of speaking into the computer rather than having to type messages...
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Site's just the business
An exclusive online recruitment service geared towards the needs of MBAs and world-class firms has been launched with the backing of top business schools. Global Workplace.com, a spin-off from the...
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High energy
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has launched a Pounds 600,000 partnership between higher education and industry to research energy technologies and get them...
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Platform soul
Terence Karran, acting director of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside's centre for access and lifelong learning, is to chair a pan-European distance learning association. The Platform...
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Social skills
Postgraduate social science students can brush up their methodological skills online thanks to a collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Council and the Data Archive. TRaMSS (Training...
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History of the reel gets virtual
The history of the 20th century, as seen through cinema newsreel, is documented in a CD-Rom and website launched yesterday by the British Universities Film and Video Council. Historians and students...
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Royal Society role in GM debate
Tom Wakeford suggests that the British Association for the Advancement of Science rejected his article for Science and Public Affairs on the grounds that we did not want to upset the Royal Society...
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Royal Society role in GM debate
During a period of high emotion over GM technology, the Royal Society has consistently called for balanced and responsible argument based on scientific evidence. We are not pro-GM. We are in favour...
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Research defended
Those angry responses (Readers' reactions, THES, March 24) to my article in the previous week's issue (Soapbox, THES, March 17) warrant brief comment. The foremost issue involves the research I have...
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Derby and Israel
You have twice referred to me personally in your "Whistleblowers" column (THES, March 17 and 24) in relation to events purported to have occurred in October 1997. The references were based on an...
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Playing by the rules
Andrew Pakes is entirely wrong in saying Leeds United football club should suspend immediately the two players charged in connection with what police consider to be a racially motivated assault on a...
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Playing by the rules
Leeds United should be praised for upholding the principle of "innocent until proven guilty". The case of Cantona was very different. When he appeared to carry out a kung-fu attack on a fan in front...
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Who gets access funds
You report that a student of the University of Southampton alleges she was told that access funds were "only for people like single mums with three kids" ("Siblings in High Court fee fight", THES,...
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Full English breakfast
As a keen advocate of evidence-based policy I was gratified to read that my country needs me, and that "the government wants to listen to what is coming out of the universities" ("Blair's capital...
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In brief
The Birkbeck statistics from 1997 quoted by Alison Goddard ("Swapping the ghetto for the gown", THES, March 17) are, as the Higher Education Funding Council for England table shows, based on a small...