High-tech performance artist Stelarc was one of the presenters at an international handheld and mobile computing symposium hosted by Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol this week. Using the web, video...
More than 250,000 books and journals will be available online for university students within three years if an ambitious digitisation project goes to plan. The service from Texas-based Questia will...
The Southampton Institute's business school has used government funding to regroup its small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship work into a new centre to act as a focus for small...
An internet exhibition of undergraduate chemistry projects is celebrating the best student chemical web work from the United States and the Netherlands at an awards ceremony in London today. The...
Macromedia is to extend its core web publishing products for the simple creation of online learning content. By building on web standards such as Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver, the company will...
Elsevier Science is to enlarge its electronic archive of science and medical journals, which currently extends back to 1995. It will provide its full-text online customers with a permanent electronic...
Three undergraduates from Goldsmiths College who designed scientific educational websites as part of their education degree reached the final five in the National Museum of Science and Industry STEM...
A data technology program developed by the University of Melbourne has been adopted by London's Imperial College to manage multiple campus archiving and record-keeping. The college's new Records...
Ingenta, the global research gateway, has appointed Andrea Keyhani and Mark Kendall to develop library services. Ms Keyhani, vice-president for global library services, was heavily involved in the...
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...
It is a bit rich for the Conservative Party to bewail universities' lack of freedom. Until 1983 there was no legislation covering universities as a group. Polytechnics and colleges were controlled by...
Elitism is on the agenda again this week, with independent school heads making menacing noises about government attempts to encourage preferential access to university for the poor. Admission to "a...
While I do not think higher education is a seed-bed for radicalism, it is a place of awakening political awareness ("Radicals in retreat", Soapbox, THES, September 22). There are two reasons for a...
The only thing more exasperating than a young person with strong political views is a young person without strong political views. Nick Crossley's report on the apparent disappearance of student...
The employer claim that hourly paid staff do not merit pro-rata contracts because their work differs from that of full-time colleagues, flies in the face of the evidence ("Part-timers cut pay bills...