Rewards needed for business contacts
Collaboration with business should be recognised as a core activity of higher education in the same way that teaching and research are rewarded through assessment exercises, a Committee of Vice-...
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Porn bans whip up campuses
The Australian senate has narrowly passed legislation that will ban pornographic images and illegal material such as bomb-making instructions from being transmitted over the internet. Universities...
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Shelfless service
Borders, the second biggest book retailer in the US, will next year equip its bookstores with facilities for digitally printing books on demand. Besides ensuring that titles are never out of stock,...
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Cheats use net
A third of US university students use the internet to visit sexually explicit sites and 11 per cent to visit sites that describe how to make or use illegal drugs. The good news is that communications...
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Unis in spam ban
At least six of Australia's universities have been blacklisted as sources of junk email by Microsoft-owned internet provider WebTV. External spammers have allegedly been using relay holes in their...
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French strike e-journal deal
A consortium of French universities has used its purchasing power to slash the cost of electronic journal subscriptions in a landmark deal with the publisher Elsevier, University librarians are keen...
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Curtain rises on DIY drama
In the next media revolution audiences will rediscover their innate dramatic talents and make their own entertainment on a virtual stage, says Sharon Springel. Ours is an information-obsessed society...
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Flexibility is key issue in debate over standards
Many THES readers believe that standards in higher education have fallen since 1990 but, unlike two years ago, those who do are now a minority. The survey also shows a tough attitude to low standards...
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Serial complainant
Whistleblowers (THES, June 4) has attacked the Association of University Teachers at Queen's University, Belfast, on the basis of very selective and out-of-context quotations from a tribunal case...
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Limited measures
Having helped compile and use multiple-choice questions for computer-marked assessments with undergraduates for more than 20 years ("Computer marking splits unis", THES, June 4). I feel that well-...
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A student's worth
Neil Kay's claim (Letters, THES, June 4) that the Dearing report's calculation of the rate of return to higher education is fundamentally flawed is itself in error. The purpose of the exercise was to...
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Readers' reactions
Ben Thompson Third-year student in media studies at the University of Westminster. Ben Thompson spells out why many students are fed up with the industrial action of their lecturers. It is an easy...
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Agony aunt
Q) I was recently appointed the first woman head of our department and am already detecting jealousy among some of my male colleagues. What is the best way to handle the problem without alienating my...
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Balkanised reference
Robert C. Hudson was kind to quote me in his review "Balkan and other questions" (THES, June 4), albeit to justify a position that I do not support. I do say there are exceptions to all...
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Kids and careers
Your column and Helen Hague's report ("9.2 per cent of professors are womenI" THES, June 4) replicates information women across the United Kingdom live with each day. We are discriminated against,...