Hot stuff is getting the cold shoulder
Students are shunning internet pornography in favour of computer games, music and coursework. The surprise findings come from a survey of network use in student residences at Strathclyde University,...
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Learners find how modern Tate is
One of the oldest education institutions in London has teamed up with the Tate Modern to develop a ground-breaking adult learning course on CD-Rom. Students in the new visual art course will stroll...
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TCS success
Profitable partnerships between companies and universities were honoured at the TCS 2000 awards in London: Concept Systems Ltd in Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University developed a technique for real-...
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Converging futures
The British Interactive Multimedia Association and mobile telecoms company Orange are sponsoring a Multimedia Lecturer Networking Event in Birmingham on January 24. Colin Buckley from the University...
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Flash flood
An initiative to enable student web developers to create more effective and usable sites has been launched by rich media solutions company Macromedia. The company is bringing together leading...
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Film moves
The Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision, the association of the world's major film and television schools, is to fund a new film practice and film teaching project,...
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Captains of study ready to welcome all on board
At the EU summit, student mobility moved from pious hope to practical initiative, says Viviane Reding. Neither the words "lucid" nor "simple" spring to the mind of anyone trying to unravel the...
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Letters: IT liberators(2)
How refreshing to read a criticism of university bureaucracy that mentioned neither the research assessment exercise nor the Quality Assurance Agency. Andrew Fisher Research support Hull University
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Cyborg off his Christmas tree
Kevin Warwick distorts the image of artificial intelligence, say Simon Colton and the committee of the UK's biggest AI society. It often seems as if we cannot win in artificial intelligence. On the...
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Poisonous exercises
A dartboard and a map could do better than the RAE in targeting excellence, says Martin Cohen. The fifth research assessment exercise is just getting under way. The last exercise cost £.3 million and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ...Catherine Belsey argued that exam classifications were old-fashioned. Although I can relate to some of Catherine Belsey's article, much of it strikes me as odd. I have...
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Why I believe the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is best done optically
As there are 200 billion stars in our galaxy and more galaxies than stars, I cannot believe that we are the only intelligent life form in the universe. Whether we can make contact is another matter...
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Make plans on the hoof
Whether it is GM food or the office Christmas party, the precautionary principle sounds like a rational approach. But Gary Comstock, professor and cowboy, finds that things are not that simple. As a...
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Science's top media stars of 2000
They are the celebrities of science, ambassadors of the laboratory held up by the media as intellectual authorities of our time. Where once there was Magnus Pike and Patrick Moore, there is now a...
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Elusive factors in the equation consign people to the dead end
Even the most talented students suffer under the formula at the heart of education, says David Karliner. An insoluble equation? Resource + student number = finite successful student outcome. 1986....