Guiding spirit takes class on a trip
Jack Miller gets his Toronto University class underway by turning off the lights and telling his students to close their eyes. If students monitor their feelings better, they will become better...
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Union rejects plans for 10 per cent tax
A proposed goods and services tax (GST) threatens ߣߣÊÓƵn higher education funding, according to the national academic union. In a submission to a senate inquiry into the tax, the National...
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Fiery pay protest burns itself out
The walkout by Cambodian lecturers and high-school teachers last month was a firebrand protest. Hundreds of them assembled at the education ministry in Phnom Penh with paraffin and a pile of used...
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Court to rule on age bias lawsuits
The US Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether public university faculty staff can sue for age discrimination in a case involving more than 30 professors in Florida and Alabama. Lower courts have...
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A definitively flexible expression
Get a life, virtually speaking. Tony Durham traces the often rugged history of virtuality The word "virtual" is used for many things which are not quite what they seem. But it probably found its way...
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Slide rule maths doubles computer speeds
Computer arithmetic is not a fast-moving field. World conferences on the subject happen only once every two years, which in "internet time" is like waiting for Halley's comet to come round again....
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Getting physical
(Photograph) - To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Institute of Physics has launched a campaign this month to demonstrate how physics has changed our lives
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No need to travel on the open road to First Class learning
Get a life, virtually speaking. Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Bill is a student. It is 10pm on a Saturday night. Where is he? Let us guess. He is checked in at the Log...
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Get a life, virtually speaking
Educators are now grappling with the real issues created by the emergence of digital spaces, David Squires reports. Below, Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Virtual worlds...
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OU looks to indies for content
The Open University is to invite independent producers to make programmes for the channel in competition with its own production department. Under its new agreement with the Higher Education Funding...
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Tight controls must not squeeze out innovation
The 1980s and 1990s have seen the effect in Britain of carrot-based funding for universities and colleges. First cuts in university budgets drove colleges out into the world market in search of fee-...
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Picky, coddled students? Make them read Beowulf
Is our culture dumbing down? There is a dominant view in this heated debate that those who complain are bitter about easier access for more people to higher education and to a culture that was...
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Figures withheld as child slaps the hand that feeds
The government has announced that there are to be league tables for local authority social services as there are for schools and hospitals. The news came just days after the Universities and Colleges...
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Part-time move merits praise
Let's get some perspective. For decades, anyone seriously concerned with more equitable access to higher education will have had two items at the top of their agenda: more places, and a system of...
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Eye of the beholder
Stuart Hay's zealous defence of publishers is just a trifle disingenuous about the status of authors ("A hard-nosed publisher writesI", THES, February 19). I wrote my first book in the mid-1970s and...