Adelaide boost
Adelaide University is to open a new physics facility with what is thought to be the largest supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere. The A$3.6 million (Pounds 2.38 million) facility - the...
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Talent show
A graduate show targeted at employers of creative talent is being launched on Monday. "New Blood", at the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane, London, will bring together the work of graduates from more...
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Language move
A new European Union funding programme aimed at boosting e-commerce is set to increase the number of websites hosted in Europe, especially those that use languages other than English. The EU wants to...
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Net values
The internet may not be the global price-cutting tool it was thought to be, according to a recent study. Erik Brynjolfsson, associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-director of...
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Bath expansion
Ingenta, the Bath University spin-off internet gateway company, is to buy the Publishers Communication Group. PCG provides marketing services to publishers; negotiating electronic licensing...
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What price new moves to halt the brain drain?
Wednesday's surprise extra research cash is welcome - even if once again the government is taking credit for spending other people's money. Particularly welcome is the proposed rise in PhD stipends....
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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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Greenaway's stark warning: pay or decay
The Greenaway report makes the case for differential fees -accompanied by scholarships, bursaries and income-contingent loans - in the most rigorous terms yet. The report's authors, themselves...
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Waging war on local bargaining
No one could be surprised by a vice-chancellor advocating the benefits of local pay bargaining (Soapbox, THES, June 30), but those belonging to an association other than the Committee of Vice-...
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Waging war on local bargaining
How many lecturers really believe that an isolated local union branch could get them a better deal than all branches acting together? Peter Knight claims local pay bargaining would be more flexible...
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Waging war on local bargaining
Few will be surprised by the failure of university teachers to win a substantial pay rise this year. Indeed, it seems unlikely academic salaries will ever catch up with the private sector and that...
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Passing a moral buck
What drives Joanna Bourke to classify as "cowardice" the healthy instinct for self-preservation, the taking of responsible decisions about the welfare of families and one's own future, and moral and...
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Standard baring
Brian Brivati is entitled to his views about Oxford, but he seems to have based much of his argument on a simple fallacy (Soapbox, THES, June 30). Teaching quality assessment says nothing about the...
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Standard baring
Brian Brivati helpfully notes that his own Kingston University was responding to the needs of society but without declaring which particular society he had in mind. As joint editor of New Labour in...
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Thirst for firsts
The debate over University of York vice-chancellor Ron Cooke's "plea for firsts" to external examiners will surely surprise few academics or university administrators (News, THES, June 30). The...