Eye witness
Last week's murder of a key government adviser on labour relations at Rome's La Sapienza University was claimed by the Red Brigades, the most important of the left-wing terrorist organisations active...
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Coke or Pepsi? US universities choose their sponsor
American students about to graduate from secondary school face big choices at this time of year about the university they will attend: public or private, full-time or part-time, two-year or four-year...
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Third of campuses opt out of compulsory student union fees
Controversial legislation has led students in a third of New Zealand's universities and polytechnics to throw out compulsory membership of their student unions. Student union leaders, however, have...
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Caribbean v-c faces struggle for funds
A university jointly run by 14 English-speaking Caribbean countries has appointed to its top position a man who lists choreography as his profession. Recently inaugurated as vice-chancellor of the...
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Professor turns to crime writing
Workmen laying foundations for a school of postgraduate studies at Barcelona's Autonomous University unearth human remains. Meanwhile, Pepita Sanch!s, professor of Catalan cultural anthropology,...
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Serious play for Pounds 3.4m Euro learning project
The Institute of Education has joined a commercial and academic consortium in a Pounds 3.4 million European-funded project to develop a virtual playground for young children. IOE researchers are...
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Character-building bit by byte
Colorado provides the backdrop for the biggest experiment in 3D virtual education, Jon Marcus reports When David Monarchi was 14, he went to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and marvelled...
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Ethical challenge to the digital dark side
Computer technology is complex enough to change the way we think and act but the challenges it makes to the established order are rare. Artists who use computers to create more than numbers and words...
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Active Worlds
(Photograph) - Active Worlds (www.activeworlds.com) is one of the internet's most remarkable businesses, based on the notion that people would like to meet, chat (through their keyboards) and build...
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Online for Pounds 199
Thanks to a deal between Sega and BT, students who buy a Pounds 199 Dreamcast games console (pictured above) before they turn up at college for the new academic year will have free internet access...
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Walls have ears
Visitors to the Virtual Reality Software and Technology conference from December 20-22 at University College London will see CAVE, a VR room where the walls are screens and no headsets are required,...
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk The Arts and Humanities Research Board www.ahrb.ac.uk Research...
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Women must be encouraged to go for top jobs
The THES's annual league table of women professors once again presents a dismal picture. The total is crawling up - threefold since the early 1990s - but three times very little is still less than...
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Autonomy eroded by the long arm of the state
Government intervention is becoming a threat to academic freedom, writes Stephen Court June 4 is an unhappy day for anniversaries. It marks ten years since the Chinese government's brutal clampdown...