CERN ups the anti
The world of Star Trek, with its antimatter-driven starship, has come one step nearer. For the first time physicists at CERN, the Geneva-based particle-smashing laboratory, have produced antimatter....
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New Year honours
John Rose, chairman of the Hertford Regional College Corporation, was omitted from our list of new year's honours last week. He was awarded an OBE for services to education. Jag Kharbanda, community...
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Help for disabled
FE colleges are being asked to comment on new regulations requiring them to publish information on facilities for the disabled to help them make informed choices. The Government launched a three-...
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Answer in soil
Soil and water could be the source of new anti-cancer drugs, scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign have said. They have developed such drugs from compounds produced by common bacteria which...
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Nolan rap for v-cs
University heads' submissions to the Nolan committee on standards in public life are "profoundly inadequate", the Council for Academic Autonomy has claimed. Evidence from the Committee of Vice...
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IT spend on loans
The Student Loans Company has spent Pounds 20 million on new technology since 1990, Eric Forth, the higher education minister, revealed this week. In an answer to a Parliamentary question from Bryan...
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Fur flies in unholy row over dress code
Academics from Cambridge University's four theological colleges have succeeded in winning enthusiastic support from on high for a new vocational degree called the bachelor of theology for ministry....
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Lawyers reach pact over Bar School
The Commission for Racial Equality has called off an investigation into Bar School course results showing white students gaining more passes than their black peers. Plans to launch a formal inquiry...
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Star billing for students
Students across Britain may soon be watching and even making their very own digital soap operas and short films following a pilot at the University of Greenwich. Programmes beamed by satellite direct...
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Stellar show
(Photograph) - Stellar show: Multimedia (i-xii) takes flight this week with details of the new-look THESIS Internet service, which launches a fully searchable jobs database, and the first of a...
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'Sloppy' claim in Cambridge
Cambridge University is selling courses with "sloppy standards" and vague marking systems, students have claimed. One tutor has admitted that lecturers were "less than competent" in handling new...
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Lively minds and smart people
While agreeing with every other point in Darrel Ince's article, I would question his suggestion that TeX is not based on software engineering nor validated. Formal methods of the sort that Ince has...
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Lively minds and smart people
Darrel Ince questions the practical value of the methodologies developed by software engineering and indicates applied mathematics as an alternative paradigm. A more radical, and more satisfying,...
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Lively minds and smart people
Darrel Ince's review of the journal Object Oriented Systems (Multimedia, THES, December 8) headlined "Few flat-earthers on a new horizon", pulled few punches. Many computer specialists smile when...
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Geography ethics row
Concern over corporate sponsorship by Shell following the execution of environmental activists in Nigeria has uncovered academic tensions within Europe's largest geographical society. Only a year ago...