Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND. Honorary doctorates have been awarded to: Liu Ding Yih (David Liu), head of the British Taiwan Cultural Institute, London; John Austin, bishop of Aston; Tim Brighouse,...
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Unions fear 100 job losses
Up to 100 lecturing and other posts could face the axe because the University of Westminster wants to build up its cash reserves, unions have claimed. Lecturers' union Natfhe be-lieves the university...
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Scottish investment
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is investing Pounds 200,000 in tackling the career concerns of contract research staff, writes Olga Wojtas, Scottish Editor. Juliet Cheetham, former...
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Contract staff win better conditions
Contract researchers are expected to win significant improvements in their working conditions in the next few weeks. Details of a framework for their career management are to be published following...
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Ready, steady, go
(Photograph) - Identical triplets Elizabeth, Helen and Sue Williams in training on their sports degree courses at Brunel University College could confuse competitors and officials alike at the...
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Axe poised over beauty spot college
Lancaster University may have to close Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside, Cumbria, in the face of Government funding cuts combined with an Ofsted report due in a few weeks which rates important...
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Mature approach to quality ranking
Quality watchdogs are to rank universities and colleges according to their "maturity" to determine which can be trusted to monitor themselves. The plan emerged following the third meeting last week...
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Funding cuts bite
Cuts in staff, building programmes and essential equipment will inevitably follow grant reductions announced by the English higher education funding council last week, universities have warned....
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Marvellous architecture
A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England on Compact Disc, Compiled by Michael Good, Oxford University Press (+44 1865 56767), Pounds 295 + VAT ISBN 019 2682210, Windows CD The series of books...
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Software founders in postmodern age
Software has become too complex and even accidentally killed people. The way ahead is to produce simpler, user-friendly technology, argues Patrick Hall. I have practised as a software engineer for...
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Increased deposits on the next century
Sir Anthony Kenny defends the British Library's radical proposals to protect the integrity of the national archive by including non-print material. It is the duty of the British Library to maintain...
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Welcome to the year of living less dangerously
In the third of a series of articles on Internet law, Andrew Charlesworth looks at libel online. This could be the year in which defamation law in the England and Wales begins to catch up with...
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Stretch exercise in a dream world
Virtual reality has a future in helping victims of brain damage, Aisling Irwin reports. New to using an electric wheelchair, the patient crashes into walls, furniture, even passing people....
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Competition's bleeding edge
The benefits of information technologies are being distorted by crude market values that will damage academic culture, David Allen and Tom Wilson argue. We are told that the use of information...
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A few useful links
Michael Greenhalgh argues that fine art has a place on the Web but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing. Education is a development area for the Internet, for several reasons beyond those...