Some missing guests at the revolutionary party
Electronic libraries offer the prospect of infinite access to worldwide information resources from the researcher's PC but are key players really talking to each other, asks Sylvia Simmons For...
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Knowledge at a price
Mike Holderness foresees the development of an entrepreneurial academic service culture with 'pay-as-you-go' global information The purpose of the Internet is to save corporations from - and here you...
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Environmental sensibilities grow from a remote seed
Bill Holdsworth visits a Dutch project that aims to train a teacher taskforce in new technology for the earth sciences On televised weather forecasts we are able to watch clouds swirling white above...
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Dialogue with a dumb terminal
Terry Mayes describes how higher education students can help to construct a learning resource for their peers It is a measure of the increasing sophistication of the debate about the impact of...
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No problem over property at the centre of vision
As the UK's media providers prepare to go digital, Peter Gibbins introduces a unique research company in more ways than one - the virtual centre of excellence in multimedia and digital broadcasting...
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Cutting edge of the city
Newcastle, once the setting for postwar urban mismanagement on a grand scale, is nurturing a technology-led revolution in the study of cities and responsive ways to manage their regeneration. Simon...
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Junior training sessions for life's race
Media and cultural studies: party political PR, film, video and the net in an age of media domination As the government prepares to introduce tougher penalties for race-related attacks, researchers...
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Spinning out of control
Media and cultural studies: party political PR, film, video and the net in an age of media domination THE slick packaging of Tony Blair and New Labour may have been scrutinised to death, but less...
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Fees rise too fast for family pockets
The cost of attending college in the United States rose by 5 per cent this autumn, above the rate of inflation and family income for the 12th year running. The latest figures in the annual survey by...
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Lecturers cold-shoulder media
Academics have organised a media boycott after the University of Melbourne declined to support an academic facing a defamation action. About 80 academics voted to seek a promise from the university...
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Doctors debate landmines
A Canadian professor of medicine is trying to establish an international conference for doctors and organisations dealing with the victims of land mines. Riding the wave of recent worldwide attention...
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Entry test charged with bias
Standard admission tests for United States universities are being jettisoned in response to complaints that they are racially and culturally biased and exclude students with talents that maths and...
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The lost tribe of East African dons
PAY rises for academics at universities in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya are the only way to stop the brain drain to industry and to richer neighbouring countries, say educationists. Officials from the...
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Ghana fears student fees fight
GHANA is preparing for a wave of student militancy against tuition and accommodation fee rises introduced because of financial constraints. University authorities are working with the security forces...
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Arson attack at Fort Hare
PROTESTS, fire and theft are plaguing South Africa's most famous black university, the University of Fort Hare. The university is meeting strong resistance to a retrenchment exercise which could cost...