Log on to student motivation
Pat Leon speaks to lecturers who use online multiple-choice quizzes to focus tutoring sessions and enthuse the class. Like many traditional universities, the London School of Economics believes in...
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Sophisticated action
Wyn Grant's suggestion that "direct action, when it works, may stifle political action" (Features, THES , April 19) is based on questionable assumptions and representations. Grant appears to blame...
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Getting equal through absurdity 2
Malcolm Keight is surely right to query an approach to pay equality that starts with job evaluation when so many other issues generating inequality can and should be considered first. But pay is only...
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Time-warp teaching? 1
I doubt that the lack of academic response to Michael Loughlin's fundamental article (Features, THES , March 22), is due to fear. Far more likely is that most academics do not seem to think of...
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Time-warp teaching? 2
Any fundamental review of higher education, such as that announced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, should direct research policy and funding to support research and scholarship...
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Manage your boss
Your report about concern over the purchase of a Georgian house for Bath University's vice-chancellor (News, THES April 26) is just the latest example of the consistently bad press that the...
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Getting equal through absurdity 1
Little will be achieved by removing pay inequalities within institutions if the basis for unfair discrimination shifts from gender or race to geographical location ("Equality requires commitment",...
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Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU) trains EU enlargement countries on combating illicit trafficking of nuclear material
Karlsruhe, Germany, 01 May 2002 Following the first session of the joint training workshop in January 2002 at Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU), from 15th-19th April more than 20...
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Today's news
New roborat moves at click of a mouse Scientists have turned living rats into remote-controlled, pleasure-driven robots that can be guided up ladders through ruins and into minefields at the click of...
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Adoption by COST officials of research projects, report of meeting on 7-8 March
Brussels, 1 May 2002 147th meeting of the COST Senior Officials Committee held in Brussels on 7/8 March 2002. Summary of conclusions.European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical...
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Update 12:00
Medical schools braced for jobs cull London medical schools are set to axe jobs despite government plans for the biggest single expansion in student doctors in a generation. Guy’s, King’s and St...
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Update: 12:35
Accusations fly in MP's report on ILA fiasco MPs are disturbed by the "serious failings" of government officials in setting up and running the ill-fated Individual Learning Account scheme that...
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Today's news
Frankenstein was an eccentric Scot The inspiration for Frankenstein – portrayed by Mary Shelley as a southern German and by film-makers as a mad scientist – was an eccentric Scottish doctor living in...
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Prodi commends universities for teaching management studies
Brussels, 30 April 2002 Commission President Romano Prodi has endorsed the teaching of business subjects in Europe's top universities in a speech at the UK's Oxford University. Mr Prodi spoke, at the...
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OECD Report Shows Stronger Interaction Between Industry and Science are Key to Innovation and Economic Growth
Paris, 30 April 2002 An OECD report demonstrates that stronger interactions between science and industry underpin growth in a knowledge economy. Drawing on a broad range of quantitative and...