Star teacher
WorldSpace Corporation's AfriStar satellite has begun digital radio broadcasts to developing countries across the whole of Africa and the Middle East. The satellite will supply more than 25 channels...
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Payback time for no-show dentist
ROME. A dental surgeon at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia may have to pay back over ¤24,800 (Pounds 16,000) of his salary after being found guilty of failing to teach the 50 hours per...
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Dublin's IT strategy pays off
A multi-million pound investment in national IT education and training by the Irish government has produced a swift, unexpected return. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is close to...
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Student protests force Gates snub
MONTREAL. A west-coast Canadian university showed that it would not be swayed by Bill Gates's recent gifts to the higher education sector when it refused him an honorary degree. Student...
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Trainers set national quality controls for e-commerce training
Two national training organisations have launched an accreditation scheme for courses in e-commerce. Anne Russell, chief executive of the Information Technology National Training Organisation (ITNTO...
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Need to know
Why pay Pounds 13,600 a year for Encyclopaedia Britannica online, as a 50,000-user university does under the current Chest deal, when all Britannica's 44 million words are available free at...
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Pass by a whisker
Exam board Edexcel is to support colleges and other centres delivering MOUS, a qualification for users of Microsoft Office applications. Test centres set their own prices but are expected to charge...
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Readers' reactions
Sue Blackmore Reader in psychology University of the West of England, Bristol. Clarification. Sue Blackmore spells out why the teaching quality assessment exercise displays scant regard for the truth...
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Should all university degree courses contain a creative writing module?
Should all university degree courses contain a creative writing module? Email us on soapbox@thesis.co.uk
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Transplant trial
Researchers at King's College London, the Royal Free Hospital and City University believe they can use telemedicine to save thousands of pounds on liver transplants. When a donor organ becomes...
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Long-awaited regime threatens to cramp change
To judge from the long delay, decisions on the control of degree-awarding powers in universities and colleges have not been easy to make. A pity, then, that after so long the outcome should be so...
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Market success relies on academic freedom
Academic freedom is an uncomfortable concept constantly under threat. Two such threats are reported in this issue of The THES. One (Whistleblowers, page 6) raises the question of whether the Public...
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Masters in the business of a truly global outlook
The best business education will have to be multicultural and transnational, predicts Bernard Ramanantsoa The "in" word to describe management education seems to be "global". Taking a cue from this...
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Women beat men to the bar in survey
Wanted: men willing to earn up to Pounds 50 for taking part in an alcohol experiment. Sussex University researcher Anne Jackson is nearing the end of a one-year project aimed at studying the effects...
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Why I ...believe the use of electroshock therapy on children is unconscionable
Steve Baldwin Professor of psychology, Teeside University Most people do not know that children as young as three have been given electro-shock treatment, sometimes without parental consent. The most...