AARNet changes management
Australian telecommunications authority Telecom has taken charge of the nation's major, university-owned, link to the Internet. Under a one-year renewable contract with the Australian Vice...
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Salford offers virtual reality masters
A Pounds 320,000 expansion of virtual reality facilities at the University of Salford will bring increased opportunities for postgraduate study and industrial collaboration. The money, awarded...
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London College of Fashion have launched a fashion magazine on the Internet
(Photograph) - Absolutely fashionable: London College of Fashion students have launched a fashion magazine on the Internet.
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Arabs snub networkers' gathering in Israel
Palestinian and Arab delegates boycotted the sixth Joint European Networking Conference in Israel last month forcing the cancellation of a workshop for Middle Eastern countries on setting up a...
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Acorn backs the box
Distance learning on broad-band networks with a TV as access point rather than the PC has moved a step closer in the United Kingdom. Cambridge-based Online Media is developing an online service using...
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Honours
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY On May 25 the following were awarded honorary doctorates : Jack Charlton, sportsman; Harry Patterson (also known as Jack Higgins) author; Helena Kennedy, barrister;...
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Grants
UMIST. Research councils: Dr A D Whetton, Pounds 190,2 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular signalling events associated with haemopoietic stem cell...
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Events
HIDDEN TREASURE. "Hidden Treasure" is an exhibition which will turn the Djanogly Art Gallery into the setting for an adventure in contemporary children's picturebook illustrations. From collage and...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF WALES OF CARDIFF. Bruce Caterson, formerly of the University of North Carolina, has been appointed to the chair in biochemistry; Carole Rakodi, senior lecturer, has been appointed to...
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Appointments
ALSISS. The Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences has elected Tony Chapman, chair of psychology at the University of Leeds, as president. CVCP. Martin Harris, vice chancellor of the...
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Nasty, brutish and short
Ron Johnston, dissects the no-win rules of the Research Assessment Exercise. With less than a year to go to the submission date for the next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), there is frenzied...
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Sickness can be good for you
Randolph Nesse continues The THES's debate on the impact of Darwinism by arguing that much of what medicine terms disease or breakdown is in fact a defence the body has evolved to protect itself from...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....
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Minds hot and cross over quality
Sometimes a vigorous public disagreement can have a cathartic effect. Hopefully this will be the outcome of the somewhat fraught exchanges on the future of quality assurance which took place at the...
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Careers survey founded on wrong criteria
In response to your article "Graduates are ill-prepared for the jobs market" (THES, May 19), it may interest your readers to know that at the University of Sunderland we have responded to these...