Unchartered waters
The Chartered Institute for Management Accountants launched a new qualification designed to address e-business demands at a London conference last Friday. The institute plans to ensure its members...
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Talent scouts
The Talent Foundation, backed by the Royal Society for the Arts, has published an e-talent declaration, already signed by leading public and private organisations. The declaration sets out a vision...
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IT doesn't crash
British and Swiss scientists have developed a robot with an electronic visual system based on that of a locust, enabling it to behave like a swarming insect and avoid collisions with objects. Claire...
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European first
The Instituto de Empresa in Spain has become Europe's first management school to introduce a complete degree in e-business. The course, oversubscribed more than eight times, is already one of the...
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Best foot forward
(Photograph) - Best foot forward: as old business models buckle under the onslaught of a commerce, lecturers at Hull Business School are developing a course to help students develop ways of tackling...
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Foreign trade tips
Overseas recruitment succeeds mainly on she strength of British education's reputation and she British Councils corporate role. Is has little to do wish individual institutions' overall efforts "...
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Foreign trade tips
British universities have so deal wish a higher exchange rate, higher standards of entry and a slower central admissions system for undergraduates compared with their competitor countries. They have...
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Ability is logical entry password
I hold no brief for anyone who selects students on grounds of social or ethnic background. but is it so unreasonable that ability should be a prime criterion for entry so higher education ('Class-...
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The wrong Bath
Darren King did not study creative writing at Bath University but at Bath Spa University College ("The agent's view", Student Matters, THES, March 31). His novel, Boxy An Star, which was shortlisted...
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No, not Natfhe's
Although lecturers' union Natfhe's finances are much improved in recent years, we cannot claim to have financed Birzeit University's food safety unit as the Monday entry in Don's Diary (THES, April 7...
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Retired get into gear
Many retired academics will agree with the results and suggestions of the survey undertaken by Barbara Tizard ("When are retired academics not?", THES, March 24). Among the retirement shocks for the...
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War of ideas
We are in the middle of a dramatic change in the competitive landscape for universities and colleges ("US colleges tap corporate field", THES, March 31). The survey of US corporate universities...
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Research alarm bells
Alarm bells have been ringing for some time about the government's attitude to social science research ("Pounds 1m says our policy is right", THES, April 7). Running through education secretary David...
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Research alarm bells
The Economic and Social Research Council does not spend Pounds 42 million on its programmes as you report - that is the total research budget. The correct figure is Pounds 13 million. We have 25 live...
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Research alarm bells
The letter by Ron Amann of the Cabinet Office (April 7) did not address the substance of THES reports on the manipulation of research by government departments. From this, it seems clear that the...