Birzeit
Thirty-five Birzeit University students this week began a hunger strike in solidarity with 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. They erected two tents in the university in which the hunger...
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Colleges step up pressure over pay
Australia's universities will face widespread disruption next year as the main staff union presses ahead with its campaign for a 19 per cent pay rise, writes Geoff Maslen. Vice-chancellors believe...
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Points of reference
The letter ("Make selection fairer", THES, 20 November) demanding that all applications for academic jobs be accompanied by full references at the time of applying is calling for a waste of time. The...
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Rash of suicides upsets school
ROME The European University Institute, the prestigious postgraduate school housed in a 15th-century ex-monastery on a hill outside Florence and financed by the European Union nations, is launching a...
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Software glue holds cool key to future
As rival smartcard technologies prepare to lock horns in the struggle for a lucrative academic market, Laurie Burbridge celebrates the potential diversity and flexibility such systems offer while...
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Oxford's best
The Wilfred Owen war poetry archive, subject of a THES feature (November 6) has won the University of Oxford's 1998 OxTALENT competition for electronic teaching. The Humanities Computing Unit nets a...
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Northern nous
Northern Colleges Network, a commercial body representing 16 further education colleges in the North East of England is launching a net-based learning system to deliver courses via the internet to...
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Analogue epilogue
Bournemouth University is switching to digital media production. It has chosen the DVCPRO format from Panasonic and will replace its analogue video equipment for acquisition and post-production over...
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Guilded age
City & Guilds is officially launching its interactive website at the BETT exhibition, London Olympia from January 13-16. The website has a general information area, "the Park", open to all...
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Understanding media
Big firms and freelances alike are invited to respond to the Interactive London survey, which aims to measure the scale and economic impact of London's new media industry. Those who take part get a...
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Croat medics use net to plug gap in learning left by war
Medical students in the former Yugoslavia, left without well-equipped labs and libraries after years of war, are turning to the internet for their lessons. Students from the new Mostar University...
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Divide-and-rule strategy for the overseas market
The UK needs a policy on foreign student recruitment that spreads the risk of downturns, says Mike Thorne Most universities are interested in offering tuition to overseas students because they are...
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Private cost of opening up opportunities
Details emerged this week of the funding higher education can expect for the next two years. What it boils down to when inflation and extra numbers are taken into account is, according to the vice-...
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Time to stand up to animal rights terrorists
Two university academics whose scientific research includes animal experiments this week found themselves top of an Animal Rights Militia death-list should Barry Horne, the convicted animal rights...
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Our actions are loud
David Albury ("When actions speak louder than words", THES, November ) is critical of the adversarial tone of a leader comment in my name ("Our support has a price", THES, January 16). This article...