IT spend on loans
The Student Loans Company has spent Pounds 20 million on new technology since 1990, Eric Forth, the higher education minister, revealed this week. In an answer to a Parliamentary question from Bryan...
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Fur flies in unholy row over dress code
Academics from Cambridge University's four theological colleges have succeeded in winning enthusiastic support from on high for a new vocational degree called the bachelor of theology for ministry....
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Lawyers reach pact over Bar School
The Commission for Racial Equality has called off an investigation into Bar School course results showing white students gaining more passes than their black peers. Plans to launch a formal inquiry...
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Star billing for students
Students across Britain may soon be watching and even making their very own digital soap operas and short films following a pilot at the University of Greenwich. Programmes beamed by satellite direct...
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Stellar show
(Photograph) - Stellar show: Multimedia (i-xii) takes flight this week with details of the new-look THESIS Internet service, which launches a fully searchable jobs database, and the first of a...
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'Sloppy' claim in Cambridge
Cambridge University is selling courses with "sloppy standards" and vague marking systems, students have claimed. One tutor has admitted that lecturers were "less than competent" in handling new...
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Lively minds and smart people
While agreeing with every other point in Darrel Ince's article, I would question his suggestion that TeX is not based on software engineering nor validated. Formal methods of the sort that Ince has...
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Lively minds and smart people
Darrel Ince questions the practical value of the methodologies developed by software engineering and indicates applied mathematics as an alternative paradigm. A more radical, and more satisfying,...
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Lively minds and smart people
Darrel Ince's review of the journal Object Oriented Systems (Multimedia, THES, December 8) headlined "Few flat-earthers on a new horizon", pulled few punches. Many computer specialists smile when...
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Geography ethics row
Concern over corporate sponsorship by Shell following the execution of environmental activists in Nigeria has uncovered academic tensions within Europe's largest geographical society. Only a year ago...
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Lawyer takes chair on troubled campus
The University of Portsmouth has elected a new chair of governors, promising a clean break for the troubled new university. Caroline Williams, a local solicitor, was elected as chair on December 20,...
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Budget battle leaves colleges trembling
United States universities and colleges were caught in a waiting game this week as President Bill Clinton and Republican leaders struggled to agree on spending cuts to balance the budget within seven...
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Life's sentences
Oral history is often neglected as a research tool, but Anton Gill explains how pertinent it was in his study of concentration camp survivors. I came to oral history research as an absolute beginner...
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Seeing off the school bullies
Supporters of comprehensives are to meet in Oxford this month to combat what they see as a right-wing propaganda campaign to discredit a successful state system. Lucy Hodges charts the history of the...
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From the laboratory to the inventor
Richard Swinburne argues that it is perfectly rational to postulate the existence of God in terms that do not contradict scientific theory. Reasons for believing that there is a God have been around...