Calls for new blood in ancient academie
PARIS The Academie des Sciences - an elite and historic institution with a membership including the most eminent, if not the youngest, scientists of France - last week presented guidelines for...
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Student press wins Fiji human rights prize
Journalism students at Fiji's University of the South Pacific have won a human rights award and two local student journalism awards. But despite the high standards at the USP, the Fijian government...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Warwick academic Ken Robinson asked why the government had not publicised his report on improving creative and cultural education. I wholeheartedly agree with Ken Robinson's...
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Funding falls short as degree demand increases
MELBOURNE Australian universities have experienced a surge in demand for places. There have been more than 250,000 applications this year, but at least 50,000 would-be students will miss out because...
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Media Lab serves up coffee and a weather report
BOSTON One of the latest gadgets being developed by the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an espresso machine that is designed to read the user's coffee preference from a bar...
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Deal brews up bigger market for yeast deposit service
Britain's leading brewing yeast research centre has joined forces with a private-sector company to market and sell its expertise to beer makers worldwide. Based at the Institute of Food Research in...
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Technical hitches inhibit net study
Research into distance learning reveals that student frustrations with technology and its implementation can inhibit educational opportunities. A study by Rob Kling, professor of information science...
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Scottish Knowledge secures investment
Scotland's universities and colleges have signed a partnership deal valued at Pounds 3.54 million with News International to become a worldwide distance learning distributor. Scottish Knowledge plc...
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IT entrepreneur invests
The TB Hunter Charitable Trust, established by Tom Hunter, the entrepreneur behind Sports Division, is donating Pounds 5 million to expand Strathclyde University's entrepreneurship division. The...
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Web widens
Coventry University is making use of the latest internet technology to create an integrated online learning environment. More than 2,000 modules on the university curriculum are supported through...
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Games guide
The University of Abertay, Dundee, has appointed a leading European specialist in virtual reality and digital media to direct its unique International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual...
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Virtual or corporate
A conference on the market for global distance learning will hear results of an international parallel study into the impact of virtual and corporate universities on higher education. The conference...
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Closing the gap
Public and private sector representatives have joined a team tackling the inequality in digital access in the United Kingdom. The Information and Communications Technology Strategy Group is jointly...
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Agilent initiative
Scottish academics have welcomed plans for a world-class research laboratory that they hope will boost graduate employment. Agilent Technologies, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, is to set up a lab...
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Time government master freed the research servants
This week, unusually, education secretary David Blunkett has turned his attention to research, especially in the social sciences (page 36). The attention is welcome, but the message is muddled. Mr...