Life mutates in MOO dimension
Three years old this month, the Weizmann Institute's BioMoo biology centre was acclaimed by Science magazine as the first major attempt to use a virtual environment for day-to-day science and science...
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Pleasure principle makes a career move
Technology will help lifelong learners to track their progress and tailor their studies says Morag Arnot. Lifelong learning through part-time study at the University of Paisley is a reality for more...
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Class of '96 colour the new worlds
Whether the CD-Rom and other interactive media are dead or merely resting depends largely on the quality of graduates who make them their career. Tim Greenhalgh followed a cohort through their final...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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Direct line to multimedia
THE MULTIMEDIA AND CD-ROM DIRECTORY 16TH EDITION TFPL Multimedia, +44 171 881 8000, Pounds 175 +VAT for two issues ISBN 0 333 670 345. Multiplatform DOS/Macintosh/ Windows CD Since most personal...
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Leanliness of the long-distance runner
MEGA-UNIVERSITIES AND KNOWLEDGE MEDIA John Daniel Kogan Page, 211 pp, Pounds 35.00. - ISBN 0 7494 2119 3. This year has been the Year of Lifelong Learning. Perhaps as good an indicator as any of the...
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Dream of a bureaucrat
Romuald Rudzki (THES letters, October 25) accepts David Albury's rosy picture of happy, self-employed scholars interfacing with their universities and colleges through a managed pseudo-market on the...
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Dream of a bureaucrat
David Albury's radical suggestion sounds like a senior manager's dream come true. I find it fantastic that he could have been prompted to this conclusion, having started from the premise that...
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Speak up for science
I am one of the science communicators that Ian Hughes wants more of (THES, Personal View, October 25). I am not one of the bright new MSc graduates from Imperial or Dublin/Queen's but a professional...
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For sale: a profitable academic industry
As balloting takes place in every university in a powerful display of unity against the latest pay offer, the celebrations of The THES quarter-century allowed me a peak into the past. From 1973 to...
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Are you a key FOB?
An awful lot of people are banking on a Labour government beating a path to their door for advice. An awful lot of them are going to be disappointed. Brian Brivati predicts who will be called and who...
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For richer... for poorer
Tony Atkinson demands an official United Kingdom poverty target and explains how lessons learned from the setting-up of a report to beat inflation could be relevant. In October 1992, after the pound...
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'Mass of noisy ignorance'
Yesterday the Cambridge Union was due to play host to Mitchel McLaughlin of Sinn Fein. But Ged Martin points out that it is not easy stopping students debating politically sensitive topics. Cambridge...
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Fish face
(Photograph) - A framed relief by Sauvres Hapishi, an MSc student in visual communication at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is among 150 images from the European League of Institutes of Art (...
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Suspension of disbelief
(Photograph) - Yogic flier Bruno D'Arcy at the launch of the Oxford University branch of the Young Natural Law Party last week