Archives of more than a century of moving pictures for teaching and research may soon be available via broadband networks, Murray Weston reports There is increasing interest in extending viewer...
Educationists and teacher trainers should seize the opportunity presented by the lottery-funded National Grid for Learning, Christina Preston says Teachers have been deterred from getting on the...
The UK will only have excellent multimedia in education when it pays for higher production costs, says Jeremy Keenan Terry Speake and James Powell's recent article in The THES ("The Missing Link in...
Masoud Yazdani (right) tells Claire Neesham how he plans to build a rival to the MIT Media Lab from a new base in Bristol Building, electrical wiring and foundations are just some of the topics...
(Photograph) - All systems glow: Liverpool John Moores University staged a laser display last week to celebrate its 175th anniversary. In 1823 the editor of the Liverpool Mercury founded the...
Three days after Twelfth Night, The THES needs your help with a late Christmas puzzle. It was very kind of "The Centre" to send us a Christmas card - but who are you? Your staff appear to include...
WHEN William Straw goes to Oxford in 1999 after his year off - if he achieves his expected A-level grades - he is likely to find more than a third of his fellow students have experimented with drugs...
Student supplier makes Pounds 1,000 a month JOHN (not his real name) sells drugs. A business studies undergraduate, he did not go to university with the intention of becoming a dealer. "It was...
RECENT research into drug use among European teenagers revealed that Scottish levels were the highest in Europe. Evidence from Edinburgh University suggests that this trend may continue into Scottish...
FURTHER education colleges will share in a Pounds 100 million or more new year windfall as the government delivers its New Deal pledge for the unemployed. The government started 12 New Deal...
Colleges and a range of other public and private organisations have been invited to bid for the first five new Education Action Zones, worth at least an extra Pounds 500,000 a year. The action zones...
continued. University of Liverpool Professor C. Hart, Pounds 57,6 from Johanne Holly Meningitis Fund (pathogenesis and treatment of meningococcal disease) and Pounds 58,410 from Wellcome Trust (...
Life Peers Sir Frederick Edward Robin Butler, secretary of the cabinet and head of the Civil Service; Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, chairman, National Committee of Inquiry into ÌÇÐÄVlog....
Geographers met for their annual conference in Surrey this week, The THES reports. God has lost to Mammon in academics' priorities for questions in the 2001 population census. Philip Rees of Leeds...
AFTER a near ten-year fight for survival, the future of Australia's first private university is again uncertain. Bond University was established on the Queensland coast in 1989 by now-bankrupt and...