Publishers of non-scientific academic journals cannot get properly set up for the internet without government money, according to two recent Canadian grant recipients. In April, the federal...
The University of Sydney's 35,000 students and 5,000 staff have become the first in ߣߣÊÓƵ to use a new web portal system that aggregates content and services from a wide range of sources onto a...
The British Computer Society has completely revised its examination to reflect up-to-date theory and current working practice. Three stages - certificate, diploma and advanced diploma, plus a...
Students will be able to question leaders at next week's G8 Summit through a new website, G8 Online, a collaboration between eCollege.com, the University of Toronto, and others. More than 3,000...
(Photograph) - Meetings go faster and are instantly self-documenting in the electronic boardroom at City University's IT centre of excellence, set up with a Pounds 500,000 grant from the Department...
It can be argued that there is no reason to single out pedagogical research for special treatment in the research assessment exercise ("Big blow for teaching research in next RAE", THES, June 11)....
I was surprised at the prominence given to Public Accounts Committee/National Audit Office pressure for more control over higher education institutions without a further exploration of the potential...
Having effectively enjoyed a free ride to their position of influence, it is somewhat unseemly for politicians to now stentoriously insist that others pay their own way. The moral weight of the...
I am getting tired of the women academics as victims reports ("9.2 per cent of professors are women", THES, May 28, Letters, THES, June 11). University-trained, financially independent women who...
David de Meza (Letters, THES, June 11) believes I am in error in criticising the background paper to Dearing (Report 7) because it measures the extra value of a graduate to an employer as equal to...
Readers will be familiar with the issue of declining student enrolment in economics. One reason for this that is usually overlooked is that mainstream economics has ceased to have relevance to the...
We welcome your survey of attitudes ("Dons get tough on standards", THES, June 11) as confirmation of the sector's commitment to do a good job for its students. But your leader was confusing about...
It is true that TQA is being phased out after the millennium, but the details of the new process have still to be worked through and there is no sign that the central weakness of TQA as a vehicle for...
As Britain's universities look for ways to boost the number of academics from ethnic minorities, Martin Trow issues a stark warning from the US, where positive discrimination is coming under fierce...
Sir Alec Broers, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, this week urged MPs to recognise that high technology offers as many "exciting, challenging and important" fundamental research opportunities...