Italy sets sites on amore
Italian students can now consult a web portal that claims to address all their information needs, writes Paul Bompard. At www.campusweb.it, students can view bulletins on research, announcements of...
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Virtual cafe gives taste of campus
Staffordshire University has launched a global learning initiative that aims to provide students with a virtual campus experience. The Off Campus initiative, developed by the university's Learning...
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Monks' habits back in fashion
A 6th-century monk may offer new and robust frameworks for the advent of enlightenment in the European e-business age. Angela Rae, senior lecturer in human resource management at the University of...
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easyJet chief backs venture
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet and easyGroup, has backed a pioneering e-business portfolio launched by the Robert Gordon University. Speaking to an audience of businesspeople in...
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Spielberg conducts cyber seminar first
Director Steven Spielberg took time off from filming his new feature, The Boys in the Band, to present the first in a series of virtual masterclasses for Liverpool media students via the internet...
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Displays of talent
A European consortium of academics and commercial companies is pushing ahead with the development of lower-cost and environmentally friendly display screens. The BigFED (Field Emission Displays)...
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Euro e-business
A print and online publishing venture was launched last week with the aim of highlighting Europe's perspective on global management and business issues. European Business Forum is a joint venture...
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OED access
The Oxford English Dictionary Online is now available at a reduced cost to further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Students and staff will benefit from unlimited...
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Oxbridge rancour not the route to broader system
Labour, it was said last week, needs "new enemies" as it bids to regain popular support from the demagogically inclined leader of the opposition, William Hague. And chancellor Gordon Brown's attack...
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A burden for youth
Andrew Oswald's article contains a fatal flaw. He writes that undergraduates should pay fees as their future reward will be greater, arguing that, after graduation, "my students will earn more than...
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Free minds by cutting the red tape of giving
US-style philanthropy would give our universities the boost they need to stay competitive, C. Duncan Rice says Each year Americans give more to charity than the rest of the world put together. The...
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A burden for youth
It seems important to remind Andrew Oswald ("Face fees or failure", Soapbox, THES, May 26) that most Americans do not attend private universities, such as Dartmouth or Harvard, but large state-run,...
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Watch this space
"Space boost for Kent University" would have been more accurate ("Kent university lost in space", THES, May 26). We have "lost" half a team to the Open University but will shortly replace them with...
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Watch those stats
Natfhe claims that women in their late 20s at City University are paid 16 per cent less than men of that age ("Sexism and ageism blight careers of female academics, says Natfhe", THES, May 26). The...
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Silence of illiteracy
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...