Skills campaign
Alan Stevens, UK chief executive of the IT services company EDS, will head an industry-led group set up to tackle skills shortages in information and communication technology and electronics. The...
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Village video
High Peak College students are logging in from the hills for personal tutoring, using BT videoconferencing. The equipment has been available to students in rural towns for 18 months. Now it is...
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Ready reference
Chadwyck-Healey has launched another subscription website for libraries, this time offering information about the United Kingdom from a wide range of reference books and directories. KnowUK brings...
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Month of building dangerously
In a Soho-sized cyber city, trouble was always a possibility. Tony Durham tells how community spirit triumphed During December a city was built in cyberspace, with art galleries, bars and night clubs...
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Caution could stifle scientific entrepreneurs
Considerable schadenfreude may have surrounded the resignation of former trade and industry secretary Peter Mandelson, but not among the scientific and spin off company community. His departure, and...
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Twin forces of change setto meet the millennium
In their different ways, think-tanks and academia help build a better society, says Tessa Blackstone When I was simultaneously running Birkbeck College and chairing the Institute for Public Policy...
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Keeping up with Jones
Missing from your list of New Year Honours (THES, January 8) was that of the CMG to Hywel Ceri Jones, newly retired deputy director of the European Commission Social Affairs Directorate. It was he...
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Aural history
Harriet Swain may have been confused by my accent, as she misquoted me as saying that the publication of oral history testimony on the world wide web was the "antithesis" of oral historians' original...
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Beauty of the beasts
By arguing that researchers should examine the distinctive things animals can do, rather than the extent to which they can mimic humans, Stephen Budiansky touches on what may be a key political issue...
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Genetic credentials
Dave King quotes Mae-Wan Ho as suggesting that in order to be appointed as a lecturer at the Open University in 1976 she passed herself off as a population geneticist ("Objector on the road to gene...
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Jazz teaching is cool for cats
The "fierce debate" "raging" over whether jazz can be taught (THES, "Hot and bothered over all that jazz", December 25) is ancient history. Any people still arguing over it are being ignored by those...
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Jazz teaching is cool for cats
I originally suggested incorporating jazz into the AB syllabus in 1989 on the basis of long personal experience. Most of us are musically average and by no means blessed with genius. My unfinished...
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Jazz teaching is cool for cats
Could we please stop perpetrating this originally racist myth that jazz is so different from all other creative endeavours? By convention, the jazz aesthetic emphasises individual sound and...
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Keele brought to book
The Turner collection, formerly held by the university library at Keele, represented one of the most important research resources in its field outside London, Oxford and Cambridge. The results of a...
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Keele brought to book
I write as a member of Keele's senate, who voted against sale of the Turner collection. As John Rogers states (THES, Letters, January 8), we were told that our vote would not affect the final...