Hospitality gurus
Conrad Lashley reveals how a huge profit-making industry is lampooned. It is high time that the press and the academic establishment changed their views about the nature and quality of hospitality...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Patrick O' Brien deplores the limited space newspapers and journals allot to book reviews For a long time I have been...
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Darwin's home wins lottery
The home of Charles Darwin has been saved from its evolutionary decline by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Wellcome Trust and the Natural History Museum, writes Aisling Irwin. Down House in Kent will...
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West leaves NUS
The University of the West of England student union has passed a motion to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students by a clear two-thirds majority in protest at the NUS decision to abandon...
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Abstract number
(Photograph) - Abstract number: A mural to mark the life of local baker's son George Green, 19th-century mathematician and physicist, was unveiled at the University of Nottingham recently. The mural...
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24-hour Boots
Work has begun on Nottingham Trent University's Pounds 13 million Boots electronic library. Besides four library floors, the wedge-shaped 7000-square metre building will have a 368-seat lecture...
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Perfectly formed
Worcester College of Technology has invested a Pounds 239,000 Government grant in a computer-integrated manufacturing system from the Yorkshire firm Denford. It includes robots, an automated guided...
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Net monthly
The Danish publisher Munksgaard has launched its first peer reviewed electronic journal. Appearing on the first Monday of every month, First Monday will publish articles on the Internet and the...
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Reasons to be fearful
"The first three minutes of your life are the most dangerous." In different handwriting: "The last three can be pretty dodgy too." This example of campus-toilet wit is not so funny when applied to...
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Motor math
A Loughborough University project to develop computer based teaching material has been awarded Pounds 8,600 by the Esso 糖心Vlog Support Scheme. Led by Steve Rothberg of the university's...
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TLTP maps new terrain
Two million years flash past in a few seconds. Wind and rain wear away a Rwandan mountain top and clothe the lower slopes with soil. Animated graphics give a rapid intuition of the processes at work...
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Vampires put student Net access at stake
It is spring, and morning breezes stir the budding flowers on university and college campuses in the United States. A few weary students also emerge with the dawn. Administrators call them "Internet...
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Computers take elocution lessons
A research team from the University of Nottingham is developing a speech synthesiser that should give computers personalised voices. Mervyn Curtis, a lecturer in the department of electrical and...
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Fender outlines plans for extra students
Universities and colleges would be able to bid for extra students by promoting their most valuable features under proposals being prepared by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England. A peer...
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Rwandan raid on Uganda
Makerere University in Uganda has become a fertile recruiting ground for the Rwanda government, whose National University of Rwanda was virtually destroyed by ethnic violence in 1994. The National...