Thesis theories
The United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education's conclusion that the traditional PhD thesis may be out of date (THES, September ) is surely fallacious. It does not follow that "differences in the...
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Benefits for porters and professors
Your leader and article mix two separate issues. Further, the leader misses the key rationale behind the COMCON project, that all employers in the European Union have an obligation to justify the...
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Disc world
Micro-reviews of 400 educational CD-Roms, mostly school-age titles, have been put on the Web at ncet.csv.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/projects/mpftp/software/software.html. Education departments, teacher...
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Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...
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Middle age cash spread
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
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Doctors have a good feel
Trainee doctors are to experience the ups and downs of dealing with patients earlier following complaints that their degrees are too theoretical. New medical students at Liverpool University will...
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Jesus College, Cambridge
(Photograph) - The new library at Jesus College, Cambridge offers a vision of the digital library as a haven of quiet study and peaceful order amid the chaos and frenetic pace of the Internet. The...
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...
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Progressive bastions of learning city
The Lyceum is a posh restaurant in the heart of Liverpool. Under a classically domed ceiling, thick-walleted patrons sit at candle-lit tables, sip coffee on gentleman's club-style leather sofas, and...
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Ancient waterworld
The remains of Scotland's ancient floating houses, built on the lochs and inhabited from the Bronze Age to the 17th century, are for the first time being studied under water, with techniques used...
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Green team tackle waste dilemma
Two research councils have joined forces to launch a Pounds 7.5 million research programme on waste and pollution management. The initiative by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Spanish academics want more change
Despite being described by Spain's national assessment body as "satisfactory", some academics believe further reforms are needed in the country's university entrance examinations. Some changes were...
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Dial-a-course by touch phone cuts paperwork
For the first time in Australia, and possibly the world, students seeking a university place in Victoria will apply to the state Tertiary Admissions Centre by punching in numbers on a telephone,...