Kyrgyz professor battles for democracy
Topchubek Turganaliyev, former rector of the University of the Humanities in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, and former chairman of the pro-democracy Erkin Kyrgyzstan Party, has issued an appeal to...
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Cash for much less flash
For students with photosensitive epilepsy, flickering screens are a serious hazard. Jenny Gristock suggests countermeasures and ways to finance them
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Suite deal
IBM has challenged Microsoft's desktop dominance with a low-cost education deal on its Lotus Smartsuite and eSuite software. Negotiated by the Combined 糖心Vlog Software Team, the National...
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Super star
Manchester now boasts the world's most powerful supercomputer devoted to open academic research. The Silicon Graphics T3E-1200E is in a Pounds 26 million research facility funded by the Engineering...
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Skills campaign
Alan Stevens, UK chief executive of the IT services company EDS, will head an industry-led group set up to tackle skills shortages in information and communication technology and electronics. The...
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Village video
High Peak College students are logging in from the hills for personal tutoring, using BT videoconferencing. The equipment has been available to students in rural towns for 18 months. Now it is...
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Ready reference
Chadwyck-Healey has launched another subscription website for libraries, this time offering information about the United Kingdom from a wide range of reference books and directories. KnowUK brings...
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Month of building dangerously
In a Soho-sized cyber city, trouble was always a possibility. Tony Durham tells how community spirit triumphed During December a city was built in cyberspace, with art galleries, bars and night clubs...
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Caution could stifle scientific entrepreneurs
Considerable schadenfreude may have surrounded the resignation of former trade and industry secretary Peter Mandelson, but not among the scientific and spin off company community. His departure, and...
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Twin forces of change setto meet the millennium
In their different ways, think-tanks and academia help build a better society, says Tessa Blackstone When I was simultaneously running Birkbeck College and chairing the Institute for Public Policy...
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Keeping up with Jones
Missing from your list of New Year Honours (THES, January 8) was that of the CMG to Hywel Ceri Jones, newly retired deputy director of the European Commission Social Affairs Directorate. It was he...
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Aural history
Harriet Swain may have been confused by my accent, as she misquoted me as saying that the publication of oral history testimony on the world wide web was the "antithesis" of oral historians' original...
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Beauty of the beasts
By arguing that researchers should examine the distinctive things animals can do, rather than the extent to which they can mimic humans, Stephen Budiansky touches on what may be a key political issue...
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Genetic credentials
Dave King quotes Mae-Wan Ho as suggesting that in order to be appointed as a lecturer at the Open University in 1976 she passed herself off as a population geneticist ("Objector on the road to gene...
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Jazz teaching is cool for cats
The "fierce debate" "raging" over whether jazz can be taught (THES, "Hot and bothered over all that jazz", December 25) is ancient history. Any people still arguing over it are being ignored by those...