Ingenta pact opens portals
Ingenta, the online scholarly information provider formed through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, has struck a deal with CABI Publishing to create a series of web portals in...
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Italians offered tutors by email
The Italian student magazine Campus has enlisted ten academics - all enthusiasts of computer communications - to act as email tutors for any student in need of assistance. In its September issue, the...
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The net is where inhibitions are shed and secrets revealed
People are losing their inhibitions when they swap emails or complete questionnaires on the internet, according to Adam Joinson of the University of Glamorgan. At a British Psychology Society...
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Unearthly presence: Virtual Visions
(Photograph) - Unearthly presence: Virtual Visions is an exhibition of computer-generated prints, created by Mike King, reader in computer art and animation at London Guildhall University. The prints...
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For London's new-media sector, image is everything
London's new-media industry pays an average Pounds 25,000 salary to staff who are predominantly non-graduates. It prefers trendy areas to those where rents are low. Little wonder that many companies...
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Cosy connections feed the fire of scientific sceptics
This is the week when Britain should celebrate its science. So it is a pity that Sir Richard Sykes used his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science to talk UK...
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Make a stand on quality
Debate over quality assurance in UK universities has gone on long enough. Wrangling about numbers or no numbers, light or not-so-light touches, and criticism based not on the quality of institutions...
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Building a system that demands support of all
Who should pay for Scotland's mass tertiary education sector? Andrew Cubie surveys responses to the consultation on student finance. Scotland's student finance debate has everything, from complex...
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Why I ...
Why I...believe the Soviet intelligence officer Vasili Mitrokhin is one of the heroes of our time. Christopher Andrew is professor of modern and continental history, Cambridge University, and editor...
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Napoleon's Persian 'passade'
Napoleon and Persia
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Telling tales from the killing fields
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of all the Poor Guatemalans - Crossing Borders - Voices from Exile
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The making of a monster
Young Wilhelm
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A continent in search of its origins
The European Renaissance
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Home wanted - money no object
The Rise of the Nouveau Riches
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The reader as squirrel
Fighting for Rome