Spare good governors
Members of college governing bodies are rightly exhorted to recognise boundaries between governance and management and not to interfere in tasks allocated to the college principal. It is hard, in a...
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US A-bombs crime
In Sir Timothy Garden's review of Hiroshima's Shadow ("Atomic truths exploded", THES, January 8), no reference was made to the number of casualties of the A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki. An estimated 40,...
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A call for evidence
A principle of car mechanics is, when the vehicle is not running perfectly, start by adjusting the engine rather than by dismantling the car. This principle should apply equally to policy-making. The...
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Wishes, perchance to dream
Neurological tests provide evidence that Freud's theory of dreams may have been right, says Mark Solms It is not very fashionable now to believe in Freudian theories about how the mind works....
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Why I...believe we still need women-only colleges
Jane Mulkerrans edits the Cambridge student magazine Varsity and is a second-year student in social and political sciences at New Hall, one of Cambridge's three single-sex colleges Women's colleges...
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Chisel - point 3D precision
Michelangelo's sculptures are being scanned to make a near perfect archive, Paul Bompard reports A team of scientists from Stanford University began work on Tuesday in Florence on an ambitious laser-...
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Pounds 300m saving with online patents
The world's first internet-based patent auction market was launched this week to bring together the owners of patents - including universities - and companies looking to commercialise research. Nir...
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Exe certificate
The University of Exeter has launched a range of courses that can be studied over the internet as well as by more traditional means. Designed for people who cannot easily travel, the courses can...
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Prints will come
Recent work by printmaker Sue Gollifer, who heads the Computers and Teaching Initiative centre for art and design at the University of Brighton, will be shown at the Colville Place Gallery (+44 171...
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Network for UHI
Workplace Technologies has been appointed to provide the essential communications infrastructure for Scotland's University of the Highlands and Islands, using technology from Cisco Systems. The...
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Green links
LEARN (Link Environmental and Academic Research Network) launched a website (www.swcl. org/learn/) on Wednesday that allows organisations to "commission" research from university and college students...
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IT2 equals more cash for long-term US research
Information technology research in the United States was this week singled out for a $366 million, or 28 per cent, budget boost. Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Alone among friends
Lecturers are trying to encourage students to take responsibility for their study. But do students understand the changes that are taking place? asks Olga Wojtas The past decade has seen a dramatic...
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Pounds 20 million for 24 hours in Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan University has spent Pounds 20 million on a flexible learning centre offering 24-hour access to multimedia and other learning services. Most of the facilities at the Yorkshire city...
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Essex awards bright ideas
Essex University has announced awards in the first round of its Pounds 25,000 annual teaching and learning innovation fund. Projects will receive backing of up to Pounds 5,000 to buy staff teaching...