Scots quick to correct
Your report on the decision not to publish the results of a quality assessment constructed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council at the University of St Andrews stated that the draft...
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Don's diary
Sunday. I travel to Birmingham to meet my minder for the week. I am researching decision-making by fire incident commanders and am based at the Fire Service College training establishment to...
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Bad times ahead for Bad X
A YEAR or so ago I got down from the branch-line train at a spa in south Germany. Let us call it Bad X. I had a book to finish and a dire need for a weekend away from family, colleagues and the...
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Keep it simple and people will choose
THE POPULAR vision of the future of education tells us that before long the classical model of a university will be supplemented by a flowering of forms. Course lengths will vary from a weekend to...
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On tap
(Photograph) - On tap: teenager Patrick Hoban from Meadows Residential School in Coventry visits Coventry University's engineering stand during this week's "Your Career" conference in Birmingham.
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Forearmed
(Photograph) - Forearmed: Digital image making should be part of a modern fine art training, according to Guillem Ramos-Poqu!. Dis-Arm is one of his own computer works. Feature opposite.
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Lib Dems stall cost blueprint
WORRIES over capital spending have delayed Liberal Democrat plans for releasing precisely costed higher education funding plans, meaning that they may not now be issued before the general election....
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V-cs dump telco to go for video
BT is safe for another year, with its contract as the major supplier of the SuperJanet academic network extended till March 1998. But in Australia it was a different story as the country's vice...
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China underwhelmed by golden bridge to net
China has integrated its government online service China Golden Bridge Network (CGBN) with the Internet, enabling users to communicate with the rest of the world. But while intellectuals in...
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Corrie and chips make a meal for researcher
Television viewers who enjoy discussing their favourite show on the Internet can offer a unique audience study, says a Canadian communications graduate. Elizabeth Adams has written a thesis on the...
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Welsh wizardry keeps chemists in touch
community pharmacists in Wales, and potentially anywhere in the world, will soon be able to keep in touch with the latest pharmaceutical advances using a handheld computer. The pioneering educational...
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Digital print and the pursuit of a perfect image
Guillem Ramos-Poqu! answers theorists who decry the use of computers as creative tools while ignoring the cultural crisis which threatens fine art. Digital art has now been established...
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Burn out warning at rebirth of the cool
In two years teaching science on the web, John Venables has watched students, and some faculty, conquer a difficult learning curve. Now, he says, it is time to ask how well those fancy web sites meet...
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The business world goes shopping
... but what it finds on the campus research web sites may often look like a limp lettuce. Paula Gomes and Janet Vaux report on moves to make innovative science and technology more compelling....