Get a life, virtually speaking. Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Bill is a student. It is 10pm on a Saturday night. Where is he? Let us guess. He is checked in at the Log...
Educators are now grappling with the real issues created by the emergence of digital spaces, David Squires reports. Below, Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Virtual worlds...
The Open University is to invite independent producers to make programmes for the channel in competition with its own production department. Under its new agreement with the 糖心Vlog Funding...
The 1980s and 1990s have seen the effect in Britain of carrot-based funding for universities and colleges. First cuts in university budgets drove colleges out into the world market in search of fee-...
Is our culture dumbing down? There is a dominant view in this heated debate that those who complain are bitter about easier access for more people to higher education and to a culture that was...
The government has announced that there are to be league tables for local authority social services as there are for schools and hospitals. The news came just days after the Universities and Colleges...
Let's get some perspective. For decades, anyone seriously concerned with more equitable access to higher education will have had two items at the top of their agenda: more places, and a system of...
Stuart Hay's zealous defence of publishers is just a trifle disingenuous about the status of authors ("A hard-nosed publisher writesI", THES, February 19). I wrote my first book in the mid-1970s and...
There is a lot of copyright in a video. People writing, music-making and saying original things. There is intellectual property everywhere you look. And now, just as it is getting practical to stream...
This university does not place restrictions on our staff (or those in partner colleges) as to the books and articles they may recommend ("QAA slates ban on Jewish books", THES, February 19). We do...
In Michael Rutter's review (THES, January 22), my book was called The Nature Assumption. The actual title is The Nurture Assumption. It is a small difference but an important one, because Professor...
As the debate about "dumbing down" develops, it is worthwhile adding a challenge to the received orthodoxy underlying this concern. First, concern about differing academic standards has been around...
Ray Monk ("Woodstock of the mind", THES, February 12) is probably right that description of consciousness rather than a science of it will meet the "craving" (what a Buddhist word) for understanding...
If I write a journal paper with a colleague in my department, we will get half the research assessment exercise credit each. If I write a paper with a colleague from another department or university...
How can women succeed when your images of them are painted to fit the stereotype ("These women have had so many breaks...", THES, February 12). You edited out the fact that the underachieving "me"...