The great and the not so good
The Oxford History of the British Empire - The Oxford History of the British Empire
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Controls on the traffic of ideas
Martin Harris and John Howells take issue with Douglas Hague's warning that the information superhighway may bypass universities Douglas Hague's "Knowledge goes out to market" ( THES, May 24) offers...
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DFEE cuts top posts
Tony Tysome reports on the shake-up of senior civil servants at the Department For Education and Employment. Gillian Shephard's "dream come true" - the Department For Education and Employment -...
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Cassandra's clueless heirs
The Business of Economics
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Grants
King's College, London Charities Dr M. Irving, Pounds 173,257 from the Wellcome Trust (coupling between force production and ATP utilisation in skeletal muscle); Professor P. Jenner, Pounds 44,765...
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V-cs dump telco to go for video
BT is safe for another year, with its contract as the major supplier of the SuperJanet academic network extended till March 1998. But in Australia it was a different story as the country's vice...
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Cutting edge of the city
Newcastle, once the setting for postwar urban mismanagement on a grand scale, is nurturing a technology-led revolution in the study of cities and responsive ways to manage their regeneration. Simon...
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Refashioning boys' toys
Christine Whitehouse on a project to re-connect girls to the computing universe on their own terms. Staffordshire University has played a large part in educating computer professionals, both men and...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Marginson, senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the chair in human resource management and employment relations; George...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Appointments
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has appointed the following governors: Charles Bean, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE;...
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FE colleges score but fail to win
When further education colleges were told, after incorporation, to hone their performance, few envisaged chasing so many moving goalposts. It must come as little comfort that their cheerleaders are...
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Japanese way of the world
Becoming World Class
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Co-ops now pay dividends
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Equipment goes down the tubes...
Kam Patel reports on a survey that reveals many research laboratories are limping along with decrepit equipment. Centrifuges, fermenters, scintillation counters, computers and spectrophotometers -...