IT ethics
ETHICOMP95, an international conference on the ethical issues of using information technology, is from March 28-30 at De Montfort University. The programme highlights fundamental issues relating to...
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Ante-theses
Librarians from a group of five United Kingdom universities are looking at ways of improving access to theses, using electronic means. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, University College London and...
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Digging deep
The European Archaeology Web (EuArchWeb) is a proposal to establish a collaborative network of European organisations involved in archaeology, museology, and heritage management from a research and...
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More particles
NASA's moonshot programme gave us Teflon. CERN, the European nuclear research centre in Geneva, gave us the World Wide Web. Now CERN is getting back to its main business of chasing Higgs bosons and...
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Early news
The next MultiMedia will appear on Friday April 7. The THES will be published as usual on Good Friday, April 14, but without MultiMedia. From May onwards, MultiMedia will be published on the second...
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South MBA goes global
The Southampton Institute of Higher Education has launched what it believes is the first MBA by computer conferencing and the Internet. Managers at all levels will take the MBA from any location in...
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Merseyside groups link to develop networks
A public-private consortium with Liverpool John Moores University as a key participant has picked up the Government's information technology challenge. The university is collaborating with Liverpool...
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Wise move on pollution
Profit without pollution is the goal of Earthwise, a new environmental education package from Sheffield-based Sanderson CBT. The simulation package, which runs on IBM-compatible PCs, puts students in...
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Geordie desk map surveys the markets
A geographical information system and mapping application developed with the help of Newcastle University's surveying department has been brought to market by a spinoff company. The Deskmapper...
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Hong Kong tie in trouble
The University of Abertay Dundee is claiming more than Pounds 130,000 from a Hong Kong company which it says misled it over a distance-learning contract. In a Hong Kong Supreme Court writ, the...
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In profile
This is the first issue of The THES to be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system. FT Profile is available in most academic libraries and to many users...
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Student knifing fuels race fears
Police were this week playing down reports that the fatal stabbing of a London student was racially motivated, for fear of heightening factional tension on campus. A Nigerian student, Ayotunde...
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People's Free University of Pollok set up by the M77 protesters
(Photograph) - Grove of academe: Alastair McIntosh (centre), teaching director of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology, chats to new students after giving an inaugural lecture at the...
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Baring blow to charity
Grant-giving charities suffered a double blow this week with the collapse of the fortunes of the Baring Foundation and news of an instant National Lottery that will directly compete with charity...
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Cheerful assassin defies analysis
When Frederick Crews attacked Freud in an article 14 months ago, he outraged many psychoanalysts. It was, he argues here, a fury from a profession aware of its accelerating collapse In its issue of...