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Laurie Taylor column
The white paper on higher education envisages an even greater role for human resources, THES January 31. Thank you all for turning up so late on a Friday for this special workshop on teambuilding...
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Leader: Growing pay gap makes justifiable case hard to sell
White papers excepted, nothing excites such interest among readers of The THES as our annual survey of vice-chancellors' pay. In any walk of life, employees are intrigued to know what the boss earns...
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Leader: European science fair is welcome innovation
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's glossiest showcase for science and innovation. It is therefore little wonder that European scientists and...
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'British higher education cannot take the chance that technology is simply another passing fad'
The high-profile proposals in last month’s long-awaited white paper related to traditional face-to-face higher education. But dotted through its 100 pages was a recognition of the growing role played...
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Eyeing up the future
Do you have the leadership vision to take your institution forward into the knowledge economy? Steve Molyneux assesses the positions taken by the various players in the field and says the time has...
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Perfect platform for progress
The launch of the UK e-university last month provides every British university with a framework on which to offer online courses. Alison Goddard looks at the preparations to ensure the venture works...
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E-outfits go the distance
After faltering in the dotcom downturn, e-learning providers are working hard to recover ground. As Stephen Phillips reports from San Francisco, many institutions are now focusing on professional...
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Learning with a twist
Freshers are famous for partying but their socialising does not extend to chatting online, let alone using technology for study. Olga Wojtas reports on an initiative at Strathclyde University that...
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Virtually isolated?
Check out students' varying skills in ITand literacy before using the internet indiscriminately as a teaching tool, warns Barbara Hull Many of us in education are well versed in the use of the...
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News in brief
• The entertainment industry has warned US universities that they could face lawsuits if students continue using campus networks to illegally share copyrighted material such as music and movies....
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The informatics man
Mike Fourman is credited with bringing together three of Edinburgh University's departments to work as a single informatics body. He talks to Caroline Davis about the 'science of the 21st century'...
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Picture this...
Scientists are working to collatemillions of images for use in future research. Steve Farrar looks at how technology will make them accessible to all More than 1.75 million species of organism have...
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Advent of the digital test tube
Cambridge's Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics is moving research from the chemistry bench to the IT lab Inside a new pyramid-topped laboratory close to Cambridge city centre, chemists at the...
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The people's librarian
Chris Johnston meets the e-pioneer who is trying to encourage libraries to widen access to unpublished academic work by harnessing the power of the net Brewster Kahle calls the internet the "people's...