Tough nut with a sweet centre
Birmingham colleges are merging learning resources in a state-of-the-art library, Debby Raven reports. The designers of the new learning resources centre in Birmingham had a tough brief: design a...
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Clearing house for critical research
Globalisation - the movement to trans-state relations is being tracked by a new web site, John Davies reports Peter Taylor is accustomed to crossing borders. He was a member of an international...
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DTI blow to industry link
The Department of Trade and Industry has pulled out of funding a multimillion pound initiative aimed at improving links between industry and universities. But the scheme will still be launched on a...
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Hebron university reopens cautiously
Hebron's Palestinian university has been allowed to open for the first time in almost a year. As Israel's coalition government continued its cautious moves towards a partial withdrawal from the city...
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Journal on the move loses editor
Concerns for the future of reference journal Keesing's Record of World Events will be intensified by confirmation this week that the monthly's editor of 11 years, Roger East, is leaving. The journal...
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Statistician stumps England
Not many academics can claim to be directly responsible for England losing an international cricket match - but statistician Tony Lewis can. Mr Lewis, who lectures at the University of the West of...
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Internet
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Sharp-edged fuzziness
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Indexes for the pixel age
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an early critic of the corruption of political life: "I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon, son of Ariston." Entries should be submitted toFirst...
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Reasonable religion
Religion and Creation
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Perspectives from Sir John's podium
Sir John Soane
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The road to excess
James Clarence Mangan
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Not quite dragons
Monsters of the Sea
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Romanity on the frontier
Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier - English Heritage Book of Housesteads - Roman Building Materials and Techniques - The Towns of Roman Britain