Chairs
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Maria Shevtsova, formerly at the University of Sydney and Rome's Teatro Ateneo and visiting professor at the University of St Petersburg, has been appointed professor in theatre...
Search
-
-
Election
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Honorary Fellows Frederick Dainton, chancellor of Sheffield University, formerly Dr Lee's professor of chemistry, Oxford University (1970-73), vice chancellor of...
-
Explorers in the psychic world
A group of British experimenters are holding weekly meetings in an effort to counteract the Arizona conference's approach to untangling consciousness. The group has been meeting to hear about such...
-
US agents use 'wiretap' to trap Argentine hacker
American investigators have used a "computer wiretap" to catch an Argentine university student charged with hacking into United States military data, writes Jon Marcus. Government agents got...
-
Federal expression
(Photograph) - Federal expression: a federation of eight colleges in Selly Oak, Birmingham will share a new multimedia library built with their combined resources. As work begins on the Pounds 5.4...
-
Free to be offensive
After months of panic over university crackdowns and government restrictions, campus users of computer networks have received some reassurance from top United States legal experts that their fears...
-
Object lessons in Tel Aviv
Helena Flusfeder takes a tour of Israel's first 3-D virtual museum. Stylised triangular trees stand in front of the museum on the computer screen. It is the prototype of Israel's first three-...
-
Make the most of the message
Technology cannot switch on charisma, but it can help a poor communicator improve, reports Christina Preston. When Will Hutton recently gave a talk based on his book The State We're In unassisted by...
-
The nous network
David Rudnick reports on a European initiative that links employers and graduate job seekers. Six British universities are helping to pioneer a project which brings together graduates looking for...
-
Whitehall accused of quality hijack
The Government is preparing to take control of academic quality and standards through the new single quality agency, it was claimed this week, writes Tony Tysome. The proposed constitution of the...
-
Waging war
The minimum pay debate divides economists, John Davies reports The minimum wage in the United States has been $4.25 (Pounds 2.85) an hour for the past five years. President Bill Clinton wants to...
-
Atlantic crossing scheme sets off
The European Commission is set to launch a radical student exchange scheme designed to strengthen relations between the European Union and North America. The five-year scheme is a key part of the...
-
LGU shaves off Pounds 5m
London Guildhall University governors have accepted the recovery plan aimed at saving the financially threatened institution Pounds 5 million over the next three years. Following the decision last...
-
Early retirement package for teaching staff at University of Westminster
An early retirement package is being offered this week to 54 teaching staff at the University of Westminster, writes Stuart Livingstone. The move comes a month after the university senior management...
-
Britain lags behind in language teaching
Foreign language teaching in the United Kingdom has improved little in more than 30 years and is far inferior to that offered by many of our European competitors, a leading linguistics expert has...