Critical mass at the church of the film
Hit man: Quentin Tarantino (left), arguably the best director to come out of Hollywood since Martin Scorsese, has an academic World-Wide Web page constructed in homage by Martin Small at Aston...
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Picture of perfection as Australians confer on Web
More than 140 delegates from 21 Australian universities and 10 overseas countries arrived at the Southern Cross University earlier this month for what may have been the world's first international...
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Open future for JANET
A tussle is looming over the future of the academic and research networks JANET and SuperJANET. As hopes of a consumer-driven "information superhighway" fade, eyes are turning to education and...
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Science Museum launched Information Superhighway exhibition
(Photograph) - Hands-on experience: the Science Museum launched the latest event in the Science in a Box series this month with an exhibition on the Information Superhighway, which runs until...
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Coded call for software pioneers
The Business Software Challenge to student code designers in the United Kingdom has been issued for the fifth time - but with a global perspective. This national design competition rewards students...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the first of Clio's followers: "'Soft countries,' he said, 'breed soft men. It is not the property of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers too.' The...
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Speaking Volumes: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nicola Lacey on Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche . I have spent far longer choosing the book for this column than writing the column itself. My initial enthusiasm for the project...
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County Hall saga is still running on and on
"A Whitehall farce", Labour's Alan Milburn called it. But the charge being pressed against Sir Godfrey Taylor, of the London Residuary Body, as he faced questioning on Tuesday over the sale of County...
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National Front vote key in French poll
Lionel Jospin may have carried the first ballot but Jacques Chirac remains the firm favourite in Sunday's French presidential election. So says Robert Elgie, lecturer in the department of European...
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Alcohol packs little punch
A "Sting" type experiment using psychology graduates to harass volunteers has shown that alcohol has no direct influence on aggression. Niall Coggins, senior lecturer in Strathclyde University's...
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British family life link to drink
The absence of loving family relationships may be driving English teenagers to drink. A comparative study of family life and the drinking behaviour of 11 to 16-year-olds in three European countries...
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Teachers sound recruitment alarm
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. Patricia Santinelli reports on the AUT's case for more pay. Higher education might be hit by a staff recruitment crisis because of the "...
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NUS shows funding preferences
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. David Charter outlines the NUS's assessment of student funding options. Returning student support to 1979 levels would cost at least Pounds 8....
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Low rank research under threat
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has sent out a clear signal that research funds for low-rated departments are under threat, and that institutions should give up on areas where they are...
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Still life
(Photograph) - Still life: Shoppers in London's Charing Cross Road were bewildered as artists Trish Lyons and Carmel Cannon asked them to lend a hand in the creation of a drawing in the display...