Clean sweep
(Photograph) - Clean sweep: Rose Bell, left, and Dawn Bentley dust down at the University of Sheffield, where all cleaning staff take a national vocational qualification Level 1 in housekeeping in...
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Italian university reform 'too slow'
Luciano Modica, president of the Italian Rectors Conference, believes the reform of Italy's university system is too slow. Professor Modica, rector of Pisa University, approves of the reforms...
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Football star turns academic
Professional footballers tend to open a restaurant when their playing career comes to an end, or simply drift into unproductive obscurity. But the former Dutch star Johan Cruyff is taking a different...
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Anglo-German link-up in Ukraine
The British Council and Germany's Goethe Institut are to open a joint cultural, educational and training centre based at the Mohyla Academy in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The centre, scheduled to...
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Kyrgyz professor battles for democracy
Topchubek Turganaliyev, former rector of the University of the Humanities in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, and former chairman of the pro-democracy Erkin Kyrgyzstan Party, has issued an appeal to...
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Cash for much less flash
For students with photosensitive epilepsy, flickering screens are a serious hazard. Jenny Gristock suggests countermeasures and ways to finance them
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Suite deal
IBM has challenged Microsoft's desktop dominance with a low-cost education deal on its Lotus Smartsuite and eSuite software. Negotiated by the Combined Higher Education Software Team, the National...
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Super star
Manchester now boasts the world's most powerful supercomputer devoted to open academic research. The Silicon Graphics T3E-1200E is in a Pounds 26 million research facility funded by the Engineering...
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Skills campaign
Alan Stevens, UK chief executive of the IT services company EDS, will head an industry-led group set up to tackle skills shortages in information and communication technology and electronics. The...
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Village video
High Peak College students are logging in from the hills for personal tutoring, using BT videoconferencing. The equipment has been available to students in rural towns for 18 months. Now it is...
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Ready reference
Chadwyck-Healey has launched another subscription website for libraries, this time offering information about the United Kingdom from a wide range of reference books and directories. KnowUK brings...
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Month of building dangerously
In a Soho-sized cyber city, trouble was always a possibility. Tony Durham tells how community spirit triumphed During December a city was built in cyberspace, with art galleries, bars and night clubs...
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Caution could stifle scientific entrepreneurs
Considerable schadenfreude may have surrounded the resignation of former trade and industry secretary Peter Mandelson, but not among the scientific and spin off company community. His departure, and...
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Twin forces of change setto meet the millennium
In their different ways, think-tanks and academia help build a better society, says Tessa Blackstone When I was simultaneously running Birkbeck College and chairing the Institute for Public Policy...
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Keeping up with Jones
Missing from your list of New Year Honours (THES, January 8) was that of the CMG to Hywel Ceri Jones, newly retired deputy director of the European Commission Social Affairs Directorate. It was he...