Express delivery for the just enough generation
Tony Durham reports on a new class of software specifically for education and training on the Web The new products provide generic facilities that are likely to be useful on any course: content...
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Running with the web-enabled rat pack
Tim Greenhalgh reviews the latest essential tools for multimedia designers and their teachers In the fairs of my early youth there was a particularly addictive game - Kill the Rat - that involved the...
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Swing from ape to tape in a different kind of jungle
A Glasgow university audiovisual unit has developed services to ensure that education is fit for an interactive future, Claire Neesham reports Gorillas, academics and students" may not be the obvious...
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Life, the universe and Marx
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND MATHEMATICS. Virtual Image +44 161 480 1915. Single home user Pounds 24.95, educational site licence Pounds 49.50 inc VAT. Windows CD There cannot be many other CDs offering...
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Economics shackles info-poor
Information technology's uncertain potential for educating and enriching the world's poorest people has become the hot issue for development specialists. The rush of publications includes a report...
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Right steps on the ladder of learning
Two decades of 'high technology' have seldom produced better ways of learning. David Clark examines a matrix for successful use of computers in teaching For 20 years now teachers have been trying...
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Block on chip and fishing thefts
As business data and hardware thefts continue to rise. Olga Wojtas reports on a Glasgow academic team's project to help companies combat computer crime No reliable statistics exist on the effect of...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * The number of UK enrolments increased by 2 per cent * The number of enrolments from European Union students increased by 6...
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Star crossed
Stellar confusion has also gripped the Tokyo office of the British Council, whose UK98 festival of all things British is now going strong. One of the UK organisations appearing in the list of events...
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Eye site
Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh, offers a guide to video for visually impaired learners, free on the web at www.ssc.mhie.ac.uk/ VI_Video/welcome.htm or on CD-Rom at Pounds 20 including...
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History in the measuring
Thirteen historians met last week to hammer out how to define standards in their subject. The 13 historians make up the subject's benchmarking group, which will contribute to the Quality Assurance...
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X marks the sweet spot for Web's future
Dan Brickley reports from Brisbane on the seventh World Wide Web conference The hassle-free future of communication via the Net became visibly clearer at the recent World Wide Web conference in...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges Two lecturers accused of "gross misconduct" claim they did not get a "fair trial" from college...
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Unions put pay top of the agenda
PAY will dominate the annual conferences of academic and academic-related staff unions that kick off this week. Unison Unison, which holds its conference for university and college members tomorrow,...
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Water work
(Photograph) - Jonathan Priddey, an applied sciences student at the University of Wolverhampton, examines some of the riverbed inhabitants on Shropshire's River Tern. Next year he will travel to...