Scenic route to wide world
European students are border-hopping to get the best value in courses and literature. Sylvia Simmons reports. For French, German and Swiss students in the Rhine valley, one simple, user-friendly...
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US bid to keep program off the net fails
An American court has ruled that the government cannot block the export of a sophisticated encryption program, in a decision with broad ramifications for the free international exchange of computer...
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Book for the future
The Open eBook Authoring Group last week announced the completion of a draft of the Open eBook 1.0 Specification, which defines the format that content takes when it is converted from print to...
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Picture this: a way of learning that brings down traditional barriers of place and time
Videoconferencing is getting cheaper. It also has someunexpected uses for educators. John Warner reports. Videoconferencing: unstoppable or non-starter? If PictureTel vice-president Tim Duffy is to...
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How human touch makes a real learning difference
Technology can help people to communicate even when they are seated around the same table, says Clive Holtham. City University's centre for virtual work, commerce and learning, which opens next week...
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The three-year miracle can't last much longer
A doctorate has long been the near-compulsory licence for the would-be academic but no longer offers certain academic employment. It does, however, give access to research careers elsewhere. With...
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Subject bodies develop powers of assessment
The balance of power is shifting from the managers to practising academics, says Anthony Fletcher. The huge growth of the university sector has been marked by the proliferation of management. Subject...
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Student mobility slowed by the wait for Socrates
When Europe's electors vote for a new parliament next week, the war in the Balkans, the fate of the euro and the elimination of corruption in Brussels will dominate the agenda. At least in Britain,...
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Quality not inequality
Much publicity has been given to spectacular failures in quality control by institutions that have only recently become autonomous of local authority supervision. TVU and Wigan and Leigh colleges ("...
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Do not try this in class
Like so many educationists these days, Linda Evans and Ian Abbott ("The credibility gap", THES, May 28) tell us that lecturers should not be taught anything about teaching but should learn their...
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Vive la devolution
I would not like your readers to be misled by the headline introducing the piece by Olga Wojtas and Alan Thomson - "Scottish colleagues oppose CVCP restructuring plans" (THES, May 28). In reality,...
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Stop telling tales
Your article on women professors ("9.2 per cent of professors are women", THES, May 28) seems somewhat simplistic and misleading. In the past decade, I have been on many appointing committees,...
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Stop telling tales
Anyone who expected The THES to lead us over the barricades to gender equality in higher education would have been sadly disappointed by your editorial ("Women must be encouraged to go for top jobs...
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Devil's in the Dearing
I have been trying to discover what contribution employers make to the education of their staff since the ending of the old training levy. The question became an issue recently in the government's...
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Devil's in the Dearing
I would like an opportunity to explain the possible problem in the Dearing report as far as the calculation of returns on higher education is concerned. My views were reported last week ("'Flawed'...