How hard-wearing is your software?
HYPERMEDIA AND THE WEB:An Engineering approach. David Lowe and Wendy Hall. Wiley. 623pp. Pounds .50. - ISBN 0 471 98312 8. Thirty years ago there was a series of software disasters. As a result...
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No fees for first-years is ruling party pledge on Canadian election trail
MONTREAL As Canadian tuition fees continue to soar, a provincial government that hopes to be re-elected next Thursday is offering a free year of university to high-school graduates. Saskatchewan's...
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Interest falls in benign orphan
When discovered in humans, the TT-virus caused a scare. Now that it is seen as harmless, the medical community's interest has waned. But this could be a mistake, Steve Farrar hears It is the disease...
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Top French institute censored
PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
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Top unis link in distance battle
BOSTON Twenty-six top universities in the United States and Canada have united to promote their distance-learning courses in a single giant online catalogue for students in an effort to stave off big...
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Exclusive grant acts to tempt women
MELBOURNE An ߣߣÊÓƵn university keen to bring more women into engineering has won a rare concession from equal opportunity bosses - the right to advertise and offer posts just for women. RMIT...
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Eyewitness
New Mexico's supreme court is considering whether the author of a critical biography of Jack Kerouac can continue to act as literary executor to the Beat writer's daughter, Jan Kerouac. The case is...
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Light my fire
About 2,000 years ago Plutarch observed that the student's mind was a fire to be lit, not a vessel to be filled (Teaching, "The fallacy of facts", THES, September 3). Dave Radlett Firelighter in law...
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A dangerous 1970s fashion
Larry Bunt says a national pay structure is a backwards step After an elephantine gestation, the report of the Bett committee into terms and conditions of employment in higher education was published...
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Readers reactions
Last week in The THES... James Tooley argued that British universities were churning out too many graduates and should have their state subsidies withdrawn If James Tooley believes jobs filled by...
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Britons with Aids opt for assisted suicide
British Aids victims who choose to end their lives are more likely to seek the assistance of a friend or family member than their American or continental counterparts. Cases of euthanasia and...
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Suicide row hits Aids research
A PhD student who has been carrying out ground-breaking research into assisted suicides and euthanasia among Britons with Aids is in dispute with Exeter University over guaranteeing the anonymity of...
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Internet
This week, THESIS, The THES internet service, launches the online version of Higher Channels, our TVand radio listings service (in The THES this week on page 24). The online version lists more...
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Part-timers affect league table position
* Universities with a high proportion of part-time students could suffer under plans to drop part-timers from one of the performance indicators, vice-chancellors have warned. The funding councils...
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GEC takes its pick of masters' crop
GEC is developing a masters degree for all its new graduate employees in collaboration with universities worldwide. The University of Warwick will accredit modules developed by other universities,...