Private tutors defend that personal touch
Private tutorial services that get students through Italy's university exams are under fire. Antonio Padoa Schioppa, president of Milan University law faculty, has demanded their prosecution on the...
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Telcos offer free service
Phone and cable TV companies are lining up to offer universities free telephone installations. At the University of Birmingham, Ericsson worked with Birmingham Cable to provide a fully managed phone...
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Reviews
The Student's Guide to the Internet 1998/1999 by Ian Winship and Alison McNab, Library Association Publishing, 168pp, Pounds 7.99. ISBN 1 85604 308 8 This British book is intended for students in...
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China link brings speed to dialogue
A new high-speed network link between the United Kingdom and China is proving a key asset in a unique research and graduate education programme. The University of Manchester and the prestigious...
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Golden eye
(Photograph) - David Bateman, multimedia officer at the University of Greenwich, with the BAFTA award he won as part of the creative team behind Ceremony of Innocence, an interactive CD-Rom from...
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Doom for discourse is premature
We need critics like Dale Spender (page 17), who does excellent work in her Australian academic post and has sufficient media income to speak freely and sharply about universities and the university...
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Two unions divided by their similarities
Natfhe's problem and AUT's virtue lie in their respective images, says Tom Wilson Last July I left my office at the Association of University Teachers for the last time. After ten years it was time...
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More to learning than job skills
For a government that enjoys urging couples to get married and advising parents what time their children should come home, telling universities what to teach is all in a day's work. But the idea (...
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Flying the flag
I was taken aback by Geoffrey Alderman's remark (THES, "Will kite-mark fly overseas", October 23) "... if my own experiences are anything to go by, the role of the British Council in defending...
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Engineering disaster by computer
I was interested in the article about the numerical errors produced by the inexactness of some computer-processing routines ("Cutting edge", THES, October 23). But I take issue with the view that all...
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Tongue lashing
We were puzzled by the simplistic dichotomy between grammar and communication presupposed by Alan Thomson's article "Double speak" (THES October 30). The suggestion that pendulums swing back and...
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Tongue lashing
Alan Thomson is right to express criticism of the foolish notion that students can effortlessly learn a foreign language in the classroom in the same way that infants acquire their first language -...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Government and the funding councils should recognise that their initiatives for improving teaching and courses, access and employment-related skills will have no significant impact on higher...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Richard Bowring rightly rates one major article over four half-baked papers ("Premature publication", Letters, THES November 6). Why, though, does he think the RAE favours the latter? As a panel...
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Involved remedies
Mike Newby's view of teacher training (THES, Letters, ,October 23), is more realistic and even-handed than some of the doom-laden assessments seen recently. As he says, the situation is not terminal...