Eye witness
Lax industrial safety practices are a dire legacy for the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the remote Siberian town of Uysol Sibirskoe, the Chemprom chemical plant is...
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British aid managers urge extension of Russian fund
MOSCOW Managers of a Pounds 4 million British government scheme to help universities design and implement new courses to speed democratic, economic and social reform in the former Soviet Union are...
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Artists patch together a new vision on the web
Digital technology is remoulding the aesthetic process - but maybe not for the best. Kathryn Jackson reports Think of quilt-making, and you think of a group of women sitting around a kitchen table,...
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Ground to air missive
A CD-Rom produced by National Air Traffic Services, gives an exhaustive view of working life in the world's busiest airports, using a custom-built interface, video clips and sound. It is aimed at...
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Heavy metal for the data age
Stephen Quigley celebrates the creation of the first working stored-program computer "May 6th 1949. Machine in operation for first time. Printed a table of squares (0-99), time for programme 2 mins,...
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Microsoft faces angry customers
Many university computing managers remain unwilling to switch from Microsoft applications to Lotus or Corel software, though a JISC technology applications subcommittee report has said the sector...
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Top-price TAGS
A high-tech software system pioneered by the University of St Andrews that enables academics with no special computer skills to manage groups of students and learning resources is to be extended to...
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Broadening minds
The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association is to award a travel bursary to promote closer links between its members in British departments and abroad. The object of the award of...
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Exeter goes the distance with micro payments
The University of Exeter has developed new software that allows electronic cash payments over the internet for "pay as you go" distance-learning courses. The system, developed by David Cannon from...
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Blaming prejudice on the group could be a cop-out
Recognising institutional racism is only the first small step in trying to eradicate it, argues John Fernandes The Stephen Lawrence inquiry was hailed as "radical", "momentous", "the new millennium...
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Holding on to a vision broader than Scotland
With less than a week to go before the elections, Scotland's higher education institutions have apparently decided to welcome devolution with open arms, queuing up to offer their expertise to the new...
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Set right on rights
Homi Bhabha ("Hybrid Bhabha", THES, March 19) did not deliver an objectionable lecture to a crowd of Amnesty activists. He was giving one of the 1999 Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Our annual series...
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Moonlighting muddle
Your article "The private consultancy work dilemma", (THES, April 23) about payments to Oxford lecturers in management studies is inaccurate. In certain cases, lecturers may be paid Pounds 15,000...
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Leak reveals quality 'A' team
THES reporters examine the latest plans from the Quality Assurance Agency. External examiners Quality chiefs are preparing to recruit an army of "academic reviewers" to check whether external...
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Pluses and minuses
The debate about league tables is critical. It is almost, but not quite, correct to argue that "what counts cannot always be tabulated" (THES, April 23). The vital word "easily" ought to be added at...