The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise A Cambridge research laboratory has...
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise The personal computer fostered the...
Halton College students are set to enjoy multimedia education on a super-fast network, Nick Farrell reports Halton College principal Martin Jenkins has just spent Pounds 2 million building a network...
Brian Dyson appeals for longer-term funding of archive collections, until recently the poor relation in the library service, as they flower on the web Information technology buffs have a habit of...
Tony Durham talks to the president of Commonweath of Learning, Gajaraj Dhanarajan (below) about the triumph of distance learning in Asia For a child whose school journey began with a two-mile pre-...
The UK is failing to produce a generation of cross-disciplinary managers essential to avoid 'multi-mediocre' learning packages Terry Speake and James Powell argue The worldwide demand for advanced...
BURKS 2. John English, University of Brighton. email: je@brighton.ac.uk Pounds 3.00 inc. VAT. Windows CD. Getting information quickly off the Net always seems to be a lost cause while at university,...
THE ARTICLE entitled "The Road to a Nation of Business Builders" (THES, October 31) addresses a critical issue for British universities; how do you develop educational programmes for your next...
IN HIS review of Gina Kolata's book on cloning (THES, November 7), Martin Ince quotes me out of context in the BBC's Horizon programme where I was additionally edited out of context. The point I was...
ASA student admissions officer at Oxford University I spend a great deal of time attempting to dispel the myth that the university is populated exclusively by rich, pretentious, public school-...
SARA SELWOOD's article (THES, November 7) contains misapprehensions. The statistics she provides about employment in the cultural sector and its economic significance are only superficially...
WHILE not unsympathetic to some of the view's expressed by Raymond Tallis on the life and work of Jacques Lacan (THES, October 31) it was predictable that your paper would ask Tallis to review...
OXFORD and Cambridge face a bleak future if the college fee is withdrawn, Lords said this week. In a debate heavily weighted towards keeping the fees, speakers gave a vision of two once-great...
BRITISH universities face losing millions of pounds through a sharp decline in students from Malaysia following a shock decision by their government to axe tax concessions for study abroad. The move...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has been accused of "suppressing" a study of four music conservatories which suggests they are underfunded. The report by a HEFCE-appointed team led...