A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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Why it pays to be global
The Evolution of International Business
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
ASTHEY gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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BAe set for virtual take-off
A prospectus for British Aerospace's "virtual university" should emerge in the late spring and the venture is on schedule for launch late this year, says its vice-chancellor Geraldine Kenney-Wallace...
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Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. THE POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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Innovate or atrophy
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
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Could these nightmares ever happen to you?
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...