Langue de Lancaster
Web experts from Lancaster University's department of computing are helping companies to develop their online shopping services. Parisian department store Galeries-Lafayette is looking to Lancaster's...
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Remote control
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has hailed an internet-based initiative as revolutionising access to lifelong learning in remote areas. Mr Stephen has...
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Saving grace
Theft of intellectual property is an issue that has exercised the minds of universities' information administrators for much of the past decade. Now American company Vyou.com has developed a...
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Forward in reverse
Ingenta, one of the UK's top 20 web services and a world leader in creating online knowledge communities, is reversing into the AIM-listed Delyn Group plc. Users of ingenta are provided with a broad...
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Mentor mode
A major factor in non-completion of degree courses identified by start-up company MBAMentors is a lack of adequate mentoring support. The company's new website provides services aimed at providing...
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OU goes Dutch
Thirteen further education colleges in the Netherlands are planning a joint venture with the Open University. The Hogescholen, which offer vocational and technical training, are suffering from a lack...
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Streaming ahead
BT's Learning Stream broadband service, aimed at further education colleges, libraries, citizen's advice bureaux and schools, has been given the green light by telecoms watchdog Oftel. BT competitors...
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Global group is close to deal with multinational
Universitas 21, the global network of research universities, is expected to announce next week that it has established formal links with at least one international corporation to provide higher...
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The academics' life of 'grunge' is a threat to future
Among the first 23 fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are a handful to academics (pages 20-21). These have gone not to young people with talent and a...
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Reaching out to make society just
David Blunkett unveils a seven-point plan to bring more people from all backgrounds into higher education. At the University of Greenwich earlier this year, I spelt out my determination that the...
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Risk blows Hull astray
The Whistleblower investigation on the Hull University Business School (THES, May 5) was old news that both trivialised and personalised, obscuring the real issues. In the public expenditure cuts of...
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Good governance
The clear support of Malcolm Wicks, minister responsible for the Department for Education and Employment's research strategy, for scholarly independence and integrity is welcome (Soapbox, THES, May 5...
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Send visitors packing
It is indeed high time for the government to take a lead in settling the issue of the visitor ("Visitors may have outstayed welcome", THES, May 5). There is an argument (as yet untested in the courts...
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Send visitors packing
The Quality Assurance Agency's retreat from the Dearing recommendation that students should have access to an "independent" and "external" system to review complaints and appeals is not justified by...
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Academic asylum
John Akker's article ("Refugee academics deserve your support", THES, April 28) was timely. He is not alone in criticising the illiberal effects of the government's refugee and asylum legislation....