When justice is strained
Menachem Mautner tells John Davies how teachinglaw in Israel has been affected by the battle over the state's political future It is Menachem Mautner's regret that in Israel the law and its...
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I think, therefore I theorise
Geographer David Livingstone launches a five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their...
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An Oksforder's blues
How has internationally renowned Yiddish expert Dovid Katz found himself jobless and penniless on a Welsh hillside? Dan Cohn-Sherbok tells his story Alone in a tiny cottage in North Wales one of the...
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I think, therefore I theorise
A five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject Tracey Byrne is completing...
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Celebrity christmas Quiz answers, and the winners
1. Harold Wilson. 2. Tommy Trip, from "The Adventure of Little Tommy Trip and his Dog Jouler" in Fables in Verse. London: John Newbery, 1758. 3. The Great Gatsby. 4. Queen Elizabeth II. 5. Woodrow...
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Disaster area
(Photograph) - Disaster area: architecture students from Liverpool John Moores University spent a cold winter's night in the temporary structures that they had designed for use in natural disasters.
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Library update
The University of Liverpool's Pounds 2.5 million refurbishment of the Harold Cohen Library has created a learning resources area equipped with 280 networked computers. The building, opened in 1938,...
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Moving pictures
The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has ordered Sony DVCAM format camcorders and VTRs from Newland Electronics for its School of Media and Communications, which is upgrading to digital...
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Henry the screen engine
Quantel has given Bournemouth University a Henry visual effects editor, worth Pounds 500,000. Skilled Henry operators can command high salaries in the film and television industries.
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An ill wind
(Photograph) - An ill wind: a new student accommodation block at Bournemouth University lost part of its roof in gales this week. Students were forced to use a rear entrance upwind of the dangerous...
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Firms 'need digital creativity'
If you want your business to succeed, make creative use of the new digital media. That is the latest word from James Short, associate professor at the London Business School and guru of the early-...
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UK lab leads Web vision
The Rutherford Appleton laboratory in Oxfordshire will host the first European World Wide Web Consortium Office. It will lead a European Union-backed plan to encourage businesses to adopt Web...
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Copyright rules change
New UK regulations for the first time provide specific copyright protection for the information in databases. The regulations, which came into force on January 1, implement a European Community...
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Special relationship
Birmingham University is among the first partners in a Pounds 17.5 million IBM scheme designed to give up to 10,000 students in 150 universities and colleges worldwide essential skills for the widely...
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Back to the future
A small Norwegian company, backed enthusiastically by a community of higher education researchers worldwide, has launched a lean browser as an alternative to the increasingly memory-hungry Big Two (...