LBS launches online
London Business School has become the latest higher education institution to offer courses online. LBS has signed an agreement with e-learning company University Access to provide six courses online...
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Euro prizes
Universities and spin-off companies based in the United Kingdom have a May 16 deadline to apply to compete for the European Information Society Technologies Prizes, worth a total of E600,000 (Pounds...
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NI centre caters for software industry
The University of Ulster has launched Northern Ireland's first specialist software support centre to provide a key link in the global e-business chain. The Centre for Software Process Technologies...
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Germans see lingo of net as vital skill
"Ich beherrsche Englisch in Wort und Schrift" is becoming a key phrase in the minds of job-seeking Germans. "Without English will (you) soon be a dummy?" the German popular magazine Bild asked its...
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A compassionate mouse
Two PhD students at Loughborough University have developed a "touchy-feely" computer mouse that should close the conceptual distance between user and machine. Michael Macaulay and Alistair May,...
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Bottled skills with sell-by dates
Ivor Crewe, chair of the foundation-degree group of the Department for Education and Employment, says the degrees "respond to employers' needs", such as "technical and professional skills", (Letters...
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Pension speculation
Andrew Oswald invites us to believe that the Universities Superannuation Scheme could raise academic pensions from 50 per cent to 66.6 per cent of final salary if only the trustees ignore actuarial...
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Pension speculation
USS pension funds might be vulnerable not only to the Treasury but also to European Union tax and financial harmonisation plans. Britain has invested more than twice the amount in pension funds as...
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Pension speculation
In providing a maximum pension of half of one's final salary, plus a tax-free lump of three times salary, the USS is providing benefits that are broadly equivalent to a pension of two-thirds of...
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Pension speculation
Paul Goldberg notes that whenever a USS member moves to another scheme, their USS pension entitlement is merely index-linked, leaving USS with an excess of cash (Letters, THES, April 21). Another...
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It cuts both ways
Your editorial ("There is still time to mend a flawed government bill", THES, April 21) confused two issues: the importance of higher education in the government's post-16 agenda and legal changes....
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Race for recognition
It is about time that Paul Gilroy ("Hearing around corners", THES, April 21) stopped using his limited time at the Greater London Council and his empirically and intellectually challenged...
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Race for recognition
Being described as a bear and held up to ridicule as a "professor of hip hop" are occupational hazards. But I would like to clear up a more important misapprehension. I have never proposed the...
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Race for recognition
While I agree with Mike Lambert ("The men who were born to run", THES, April 14) that there is a genetic predisposition to distance running in a small population in Kenya, this is entirely different...
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League of difference
Introductory notes to the league tables (THES, April 14), correctly stated that "efficiency is taken from the Hefce performance indicators". However, the column containing efficiency measures was...