E-learning guru joins IT centre
E-learning guru Steve Molyneux has been appointed director of a national research centre that will investigate the impact of information technology on education, training and employment. The...
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Students object to online proposal
Australian university students are protesting at the decision by three Universitas 21 members to back plans for a global online university. The universities of Melbourne, New South Wales and...
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Report rejects security model
Universities are coming under pressure to adopt formal information security policies, but the British standard that is rapidly becoming a global benchmark is poorly suited to academic environments, a...
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Robotic serpent will help the disabled
A snakelike robotic device that can give disabled people greater independence has been developed at Staffordshire University. The Flexibot was built by a team at the Centre for Rehabilitation...
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Dundee widens access and horizons
Dundee University is helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to raise sponsorship for voluntary work overseas. The Centre for Enterprise Management, opened this week by Wendy Alexander,...
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Critical dons fire at IT
A workshop at the London School of Economics will question whether too many businesses are taking a narrow, simplistic view of information technology and ignoring its wider social dimensions. The...
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Campus is perfect nurturer
Universities have a vital role to play in helping Britain to boost economic growth by increasing the amount of venture capital investment, a Centre for Policy Studies report concludes. Higher...
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£1m pot of gold for fairy-tale endings
A £1 million business plan competition, which aims to fast-track ideas from United Kingdom universities into high-tech companies, is inviting applications. The competition, which is funded by a...
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UK quality guidelines perpetuate colonialism
Our concepts and language are being pressed on the overseas partners of UK institutions, argues Pieta Monks The United States has lost the cold war. The West is in the throes of an economic...
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Letters: Publishers be damned
The logic of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society's decision to withhold payment of copyright royalties to members is misleading ("Royalties on hold in fee dispute", THES, March 9). The...
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Why I... believe psychohistory shouldacknowledge its founding father
Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's work on psychohistory began in 1939, with the redrafting of an essay on the rise of Adolf Hitler. For Erikson, a Danish-German-American-Jewish-Protestant-agnostic yet...
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Hope for the homeless
When it comes to education, the homeless need all the help they can get, writes Carolyn Hayman. If entry to higher education took the form of a race, we would see students from private sector schools...
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It's the same 'old' story in HE
More work is required to make lifelong learning available for life, argues Brian Groombridge. Last month, when the government refuelled controversy over state-school students and elite universities,...
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What price progress?
When it comes to misconduct in research, can science ever be self-policing or does the sector need to rethink its strategy? Nicholas Steneck questions. During the second world war and continuing...
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Cutting edge: David Macdonald
Exploration of oil may have peaked in the 20th century, but petroleum geologists are still needed for environmental research and to predict the effects of global warming. Many United States oil-belt...