Student appeals on the increase
Academic appeals by students at more than half of British universities have risen in the past two years, research suggests. Tim Birtwistle, a law lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University who...
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Don's diary
Thursday After three weeks of packing and distributing furniture, clothes, books and other household junk to friends and family we leave England (raining and cold) and fly to Italy (raining and hot...
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Holiday horror
(Photograph) - fifteen fire engines were called to deal with a blaze that engulfed an office and laboratory in Birmingham University's eight-storey biochemistry building on Monday. All staff were...
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Caffeine buzz
A company in Arizona is using leading-edge technologies to develop software for running colleges and universities. Buzzeo (www.buzzeo.com) used Neuron Data's Elements Advisor to develop its ZEOLogix...
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US campuses act to avoid violation of privacy laws
For years, American universities and colleges have made more and more information about their students available online: class schedules, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs and even grades....
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Pounds 1/3 m for pinpointed courses
A Pounds 300,000 grant from the Paul G Allen Virtual Education Foundation will support Oxford University's work on a system for delivering courses individually tailored for each student, writes Tony...
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Phone alone
(Photograph) - Students and staff at the University of Warwick could be cutting their payphone costs by up to half in the next year thanks to a new Mitel telecard system. Cards, costing between...
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Yorkshire MAN speeds info ahead of time
A fast, technologically advanced Pounds 2.5 million computer network, linking eight universities in six Yorkshire cities, is nearing completion ahead of schedule. The Yorkshire and Humberside...
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Express delivery for the just enough generation
Tony Durham reports on a new class of software specifically for education and training on the Web The new products provide generic facilities that are likely to be useful on any course: content...
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Running with the web-enabled rat pack
Tim Greenhalgh reviews the latest essential tools for multimedia designers and their teachers In the fairs of my early youth there was a particularly addictive game - Kill the Rat - that involved the...
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Swing from ape to tape in a different kind of jungle
A Glasgow university audiovisual unit has developed services to ensure that education is fit for an interactive future, Claire Neesham reports Gorillas, academics and students" may not be the obvious...
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Life, the universe and Marx
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND MATHEMATICS. Virtual Image +44 161 480 1915. Single home user Pounds 24.95, educational site licence Pounds 49.50 inc VAT. Windows CD There cannot be many other CDs offering...
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Economics shackles info-poor
Information technology's uncertain potential for educating and enriching the world's poorest people has become the hot issue for development specialists. The rush of publications includes a report...
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Right steps on the ladder of learning
Two decades of 'high technology' have seldom produced better ways of learning. David Clark examines a matrix for successful use of computers in teaching For 20 years now teachers have been trying...
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Block on chip and fishing thefts
As business data and hardware thefts continue to rise. Olga Wojtas reports on a Glasgow academic team's project to help companies combat computer crime No reliable statistics exist on the effect of...