University library researchers will enter the new millennium acknowledging the endurance of the book. The "library without books" has been abandoned; the latest round of Electronic Libraries (eLib)...
Saving manufacturers time and money by improving their design and production processes is the mission of the manufacturing engineering centre at the University of Wales, Cardiff. The centre, which...
SuperJANET pulls BT plug Cable and Wireless has pipped BT to the contract for SuperJANET III, the new high-capacity backbone which will interconnect academic metropolitan area networks (MANs) across...
Ageism may be aggravating the IT skills shortage. A survey of 100 of the UK's biggest companies, carried out on behalf of Connect Support Services, found that only 1 per cent of application software...
Julia Hinde reports on a project which will make detailed medical research available to patients using the Web. Five-day-old Baebhen Schuttke received an urgently-needed liver transplant after her...
WEBSITE GRAPHICS. By Willem Velthoven and Jorinde Seijdel. Thames and Hudson, 192pp, Pounds 29.95. - ISBN 0 500 01788 3 Design as cookery is the metaphor chosen by Nathan Shedroff for his...
THE FUTURE of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, in limbo since July when the government gave the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council permission to move all astronomy technical support to...
ROGER Ward, the embattled Association of Colleges chief executive, has been replaced by his deputy while his activities are investigated. The AOC board relieved Mr Ward of his duties at an...
RESEARCH councils must have extra funds to pay the full indirect costs of university research, says the Council for Science and Technology in its advice to ministers. In a move towards openness, the...
FUNDING will be withdrawn for thousands of students studying overseas on courses franchised and run by British universities. The Higher Education Funding Council for England estimates that funding...
STAFF at Swansea Institute were astonished to see the headline "Swansea Institute gives up its attempt to remain independent" (THES, November 28). We are not "attempting" to "survive alone" and we...
THE prospect of a Pounds 1 billion sweetener for the eventual "purchaser" of the Student Loan debt (THES December 12) borders on the offensive. Time was when such practice was seen to be competitive...
MAY we speak up for the poor woebegone journal editor who has received so much flak in your columns (THES, November 28 and December 5)? The image implied by one of your correspondents of the academic...
THE only surprising fact regarding the extension of the government's control of the universities is that anyone should be surprised ("The Coalition of Two Worlds" THES, December 5). The pattern of...
HELEN Jones (THES, December 5) is wrong to say that "students aged over 50 cannot apply for access funding". They can. The requirement to have taken out a loan first does not apply to them. As Jones...