Academics voice fears over zapping culture
Speakers at a recent Canadian conference on the impact of the digital revolution on the classroom were certainly not blinded by technology. Edith Ackermann, a professor at France's University of Aix-...
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Totally wired
(Photograph) - Glasgow artist Charles Sandison's self-portrait of "The Artist as a young hacker", one of several works currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ArtAIDS in...
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Centre explores personal info explosion
The University of the West of England has set up a centre to explore the strictly personal side of computers. The centre for personal information management will focus on developments which allow...
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CD-Rom guide reopens row on drop out rates
A CD-Rom version of the controversial universities guide, PUSH has been launched this week. "PUSH CD (The Multimedia Student Guide to UK Universities)" uses a similar database to the printed PUSH...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author not famed for his brevity: ". . . If strength were granted me for long enough to accomplish my work, I should not fail, even if the results were to make...
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Granting last wishes
Clive Seale tells why he hopes to provide some hard evidence in the tricky debate about euthanasia What do people want as they approach the end of their lives? If they are in serious pain or unable...
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A 'zing' of truth
Scientists seek objective reality, but, argues Steven Weinberg, although that is a social process it does not make the end product a social construct. Standing in a bookshop in Harvard Square a...
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Warring faction
Wole Soyinka's outspokenness remains undiminished since becoming Africa's first Nobel literature laureate, as found out. No sooner had the freshly escaped Wole Soyinka begun to address a packed press...
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Surfing on the waves from Durham
Scientists concerned about science's relationship with society feel that those best placed to illuminate it are studying irrelevant issues instead. Meanwhile, sociologists say they already have...
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A challenge to some sacred cows
Our resolutions this new year should be to challenge some of higher education's sacred cows. Free higher education: I fully endorse the principle that higher education should be free at the point of...
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Labour late to the Conservative tax
The latest U-turn from the Labour Party on a graduate tax is surely one of its most spectacular policy reversals in recent days. Conservative Students have campaigned consistently over the past six...
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Speculations on accumulation
Credit transfer is flexible, but the cost is daunting. Last year's report by Professor David Robertson, Choosing to Change -- Extending access, choice and mobility in higher education, is arguably...
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Oxford Seoul search
Oxford University is indeed deep into Korea ("Abroad the Seoul Train",THES, December 23) but not with an intention of setting up a branch campus. The university is developing its strong links with...
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Cultural bill paid for Scottish autonomy
I have often wondered why the Scots have preferred to be ruled by the Parliament in London rather than by a parliament of their own. In a stimulating article ("Hanging out with the big boys", THES,...
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Practice with a clearer purpose
Gordon Kirk suggests a strategy for improving the effectiveness and credibility of the external examining system In the recent report by the Higher Education Quality Council, Learning from Audit, the...