Net porn censorship plans worry academics
A decision by the Australian government to introduce censorship laws covering the internet has alarmed the nation's universities and internet service providers which fear the consequences of attempts...
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Funders map out national deal on OS data
The funding councils and Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, have struck a deal that will make digital map data available in higher education institutions. The council's Joint...
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Secret beauty hidden on the chips
Biophysicist Michael Davidson was studying chromosomes through an incredibly high-powered microscope at Florida State University when he discovered something no scientist before him seems to have...
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Millennium millions
Anglia Polytechnic University's learning technology research centre, Ultralab, led by Stephen Heppell, will jointly administer a pilot phase of a Pounds 6 million project helping British...
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FE geared for skills
A consortium of 11 of Britain's largest further education colleges has signed a Pounds 300,000 contract with ICL, the IT services company, to deliver its CyberSkills programme to small and medium-...
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Secure future
The centre for mathematical sciences (above) being built at Cambridge University will feature a fully integrated security system built by Philips at a cost of Pounds 250,000. The system, running on...
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Kosovo strains limits of thought
While the villages burn and the bombs drop in Kosovo, another war has been waged in the virtual world of the internet. At stake is the all-important "moral high ground", and the "rationale" for...
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Hard-sell culture wins minds in Mexico
So education should be more vocational? In 1995 Monterrey Tech, a private university with 80,000 students and 30 campuses peppering the map of Mexico, discovered that 40 per cent of its graduates...
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A club is only as good as the members it attracts
The ILT must reflect the diversity within its membership and acknowledge those with proven track records, writes Clive Booth There is one sure way to success for the Institute for Learning and...
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Abolishing fees in Scotland will add to
Only after the risk of alienating voters has passed have Scotland's Labour politicians and university leaders begun to point out the disadvantages of abolishing tuition fees. There are the anomalies...
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Read with open mind
Roy Harris is entitled to his idiosyncratic view of Gerry Altmann's The Ascent of Babel ("Babel and psychobabble", THES, May 7). However, his attack on psycholinguistics is almost incomprehensible...
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Don't abandon Europe
My best information is that Thames Valley University intends to close its degree course in European studies and invite the European studies staff to accept voluntary redundancy. If it should be the...
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Respect minority languages
It was with great sadness and dismay that I read Christie Davies's Soapbox article ("Why I believe the Welsh Assembly should not compel students to be taught in Welsh", THES, April 30). One of the...
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Respect minority languages
The views expressed by Christie Davies are offensive in the extreme. Any spread of the Welsh language that is likely to be "pushed for" is only reinstating the language in areas where it was spoken...
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In support of all staff
I am writing to complain about your confusing and inaccurate reporting of the Unison Higher Education Conference ("Unison gears up for strikes", THES, May 7). To clear up any doubts, an emergency...