Digital guru lashes UK
Nicholas Negroponte (pictured), head of the MIT Media Lab, has accused the British government of failing to protect the country's digital future by imposing a tax on internet technology. Professor...
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Across the gap
The University of Oxford is hosting a global interactive debate today that will bring together academics, policy-makers and business to build a visionary model of universal access to the internet. "...
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E-book agreement
Adobe Systems is to develop e-book publishing solutions with PricewaterhouseCoopers and InterTrust Technologies Corporation. The e-book market is expected to be a $2.3 billion industry by 2005,...
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Telling words
A survey of more than 1,000 writers in the United Kingdom, carried out by Nottingham Trent University, has revealed that 55 per cent use the internet everyday. It also defines the average "wired"...
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Top-level deal
A behind-the-scenes deal has been struck between top officials of EU member states over the EU copyright directive. The deal may free academic libraries from the risk of royalty fees for copying...
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Southampton spin-off attracts record Pounds 37m
The multi-billion dollar global telecommunications market has a new key player this week after the spin-off from Southampton University of a fibre-optics components company. Southampton Photonics,...
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Czechs 'losing internet race'
Backward-looking politicians risk losing an historic opportunity to enable the Czech Republic to take an economic leap forward and invest in a knowledge society, a leading academic and former...
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The damage to Derby in taking a heavy hand
Derby University awaits the Quality Assurance Agency's inspection with understandable trepidation (pages 6-7). The QAA's report on Thames Valley University diminished its reputation and led to...
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Red-tape logic in delayed consent for animal tests
Politicians are fond of pointing to the biomedical industry's strengths for the economy. It is research intensive, profitable, export led and globally competitive. But this week leaders of the...
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Everyone benefits from a creative collaboration
Local 'compacts' will help to meet employers' needs and should boost institutions' funds says Ron Dearing. It was once said of Keith Joseph that for him to enter a room was of itself a statement. I...
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More discrimination
I was glad to see John Randall raise the question of abolishing degree classification (Why II THES, June 9). But I was a little surprised that he did not stress the fact that the system fails to...
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Dependable data
The raw data on salaries referred to by Giles Dove of Stirling University and Roderick Floud of London Guildhall University (Letters, THES, June 9) were provided to the Association of University...
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Dependable data
It was useful to learn from Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, that his institution has such a diverse body of students and that "about half are ethnic minorities". Could we now...
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Derby revisited
Your report (News, THES, June 9) about the subject review of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Derby was misleading. Those subjects were previously considered in a single unit that...
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Unpractising preacher
I fully support the aims of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, but whatever one thinks of the merits or otherwise of "glorifying" individual "excellence in teaching", the ILT, in administering...