Computers to help fight brain disease
A new way of training computers to interpret brain scan images may enable doctors to correctly diagnose different types of degenerative diseases at a much earlier stage. Chris Taylor and his team at...
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Edinburgh gold
A collaborative website that aims to reveal the links between climate change and the tropical rainforests to young people and the general public has won a gold medal from the Council for Advancement...
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Converse in style
Smart clothing technology developed by a university enterprise consortium lets people make a mobile call by a pull of a jacket tag. The jacket is fitted with an integrated appliance or separate belt...
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Thought for food
Another Tekes-funded project is developing smart food packaging that gives cooking instructions to the microwave oven, monitors food inventory in the refrigerator and reorders online via a home...
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Designer university
An online learning environment for knowledge economy developers has been launched by software solutions company Macromedia and Element K, a leading provider of corporate e-learning solutions for...
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Knowledge probe
TFPL, a knowledge consultancy company, has launched an international research project into the skills and competencies required in knowledge environments. The research, based on a survey of knowledge...
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Kroto call
Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto will discuss the implications of nanotechnology (see Enterprise, THES, August 4) in The Next Big Thing series tonight (11pm) on BBC2. The programme, made by the Vega...
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QMW offers e-business option
Queen Mary and Westfield College has launched an e-commerce engineering masters degree in a bid to accelerate the development of business-savvy technologists. The global shortage of information...
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Double first
(Photograph) - Bernard Shapiro, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, and his twin, Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University, receive honorary doctorates from...
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Diversity - but only up to a point
Recognition that present policies may be distorting higher education's activities comes in this week's policy statement on diversity from the English funding council. This is most welcome and, taken...
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Where's the money for increased access?
In the second of our series of articles about universities in the 21st century, Gordon Marsden argues that top-up fees are not the only option if we want to sustain the expansion of higher education...
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Black and in the red
Karen MacGregor is right to suggest lack of clarity on funding is the greatest weakness of the report on the future of South African universities (International news, THES, July 28). The present...
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Mother nurture?
Anne Sebba's "Should you wine and dine them or just correct their spelling?" (THES, August 4) failed to take a serious subject seriously and, more importantly, it played a dangerous gender game. If...
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Academic alumni must cough up
Norman Cantor's letter (THES, August 4) is a useful corrective in the comparisons between US and UK higher education. There is little question that we are heading towards a system where fees will...
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Hooray for scientists
Colin Blakemore weighs in with the old myth that the British public think science is a bad thing ("What experts say about the science white paper", THES, August 4). In the same issue were the results...