Designer university
An online learning environment for knowledge economy developers has been launched by software solutions company Macromedia and Element K, a leading provider of corporate e-learning solutions for...
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Knowledge probe
TFPL, a knowledge consultancy company, has launched an international research project into the skills and competencies required in knowledge environments. The research, based on a survey of knowledge...
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Kroto call
Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto will discuss the implications of nanotechnology (see Enterprise, THES, August 4) in The Next Big Thing series tonight (11pm) on BBC2. The programme, made by the Vega...
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QMW offers e-business option
Queen Mary and Westfield College has launched an e-commerce engineering masters degree in a bid to accelerate the development of business-savvy technologists. The global shortage of information...
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Double first
(Photograph) - Bernard Shapiro, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, and his twin, Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University, receive honorary doctorates from...
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Diversity - but only up to a point
Recognition that present policies may be distorting higher education's activities comes in this week's policy statement on diversity from the English funding council. This is most welcome and, taken...
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Where's the money for increased access?
In the second of our series of articles about universities in the 21st century, Gordon Marsden argues that top-up fees are not the only option if we want to sustain the expansion of higher education...
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Black and in the red
Karen MacGregor is right to suggest lack of clarity on funding is the greatest weakness of the report on the future of South African universities (International news, THES, July 28). The present...
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Mother nurture?
Anne Sebba's "Should you wine and dine them or just correct their spelling?" (THES, August 4) failed to take a serious subject seriously and, more importantly, it played a dangerous gender game. If...
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Academic alumni must cough up
Norman Cantor's letter (THES, August 4) is a useful corrective in the comparisons between US and UK higher education. There is little question that we are heading towards a system where fees will...
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Hooray for scientists
Colin Blakemore weighs in with the old myth that the British public think science is a bad thing ("What experts say about the science white paper", THES, August 4). In the same issue were the results...
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Female blonding
As a redhead rather than a "TV blonde", I would like to assure Angela McRobbie ("Sister of the 21st century", THES, August 4) that I continue to use my radical feminist "female energy" to maintain...
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Ethical investing
G. P. H. L. De Silva asks "what is unethical about arms production and trade?" (Letters, THES, August 4). Sadly arms manufacturers do not care whether or not their products are used by repressive...
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Casualisation charter
Readers will not fall for the spin Tom Wilson tries to place on Natfhe's endorsement of the employers' "Guide to good practice in fixed term and casual employment" (Letters, THES, August 4). The...
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Subjects and benefits
Madsen Pirie wants to highlight "individual" benefit of a university education while also recognising "social" benefit ("Institutions will finally enjoy era of autonomy", THES, August 4). But both...