Time flies when you're trying to reform
Western European, particularly British, university involvement in the transition process in eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union has been one of the minor success stories in an...
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Kicking up the dust in a chaotic storehouse
Researchers are collaborating to bring order to the chaos of the Web. People find things on the network in different ways. The popular search engines - Alta Vista, Lycos, and so on - are heavily used...
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California plans super-institution
California will not participate in the Western Governors' University planned by a consortium of states. It will develop plans for a super-institution using the Internet and other emerging...
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Competence fatigue
Competence, like motherhood, is hard to be against. Of course people should be competent to carry out the job they hold. A cook must be able to cook, a professor of Greek to read Greek. So far so...
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Minister wages war on mega-campuses
The coming year should see radical changes for Italy's state university system. Luigi Berlinguer, minister for schools, universities and scientific research since April, has warned that the system is...
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Italian job
Among the most reliable of running stories with which the "fings ain't wot they used to be" section of the national press is wont to regale us on slow news days is the proposition - probably first...
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Subscript for a free and easy system
JISC will extend and embrace new models of funding and delivery in its strategies towards the year 2000. The Joint Information Systems Committee's new five-year strategy recognises the importance of...
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Research probes IT value for Dearing
The alleged benefits of information technology in higher education are to be dissected and examined with sophisticated techniques imported from the United States. Researchers at three universities...
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Hole truths
John Davies reports on the problems archaeologists face in Jerusalem. The odd thing is it's sometimes called an archaeological tunnel in the press. But the tunnelling work has always been in the...
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Budgets win prizes
Just what do we want to get for the billions the Government spends on research. The increased concentration of research funding in a few universities, highlighted by the imminent increase in research...
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Superleague formed
Four British universities are founder members of a new international superleague of institutions which aims to set up research and student exchange networks. Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
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The right ending?
The Tories are set for electoral defeat, predicts historian John Charmley. And, he tells Simon Targett, Tony Blair is a very 'convincing Conservative prime minister' who could be Mrs T's true heir....
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A three-cornered battle of Wits
Race and gender are to the fore in the election for the leadership of one of South Africa's largest and most influential universities, writes Karen Mac Gregor. The three professors in the running for...
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British plot coup of the heart valves
Three universities are collaborating on a Pounds 1 million project to create an artificial heart valve that could transform cardiac surgery. Patients whose diseased heart valves have to be replaced...