What the report said
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit * Leonardo's initial tender specifications for a printing order were altered at the last minute so the firm Forma in Quarto...
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Leonardo ran with few checks
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Question marks hang over the Leonardo da Vinci initiative to promote youth vocational training in the European Union - at...
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Mixed blessing
Students like web-based instruction but it has brought their tutors grief, according to a study reported in the Journal of Distance Education. Advantages cited by students include mastery of...
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2020 vision
Personalised lessons, safe virtual streets for children, virtual sports to include those with disabilities and 3D scans to detect and repair body "malfunctions" are among visions of life in 2020 from...
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Oxford double
Oxford University's Stuart Lee, Paul Groves and Chris Stephens won the teaching and learning section of the UCISA Web Awards, for their website on the war poet Wilfred Owen. The management...
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Stack 'em high, pitch 'em low
Darrel Ince argues that the brash computer publishing infecting our bookshops reflects a dangerous dumbing-down in computing A visit to Oxford has, until recently, been a pleasant experience: a walk...
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Madrid
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new education minister, has promised to give a new status to the country's 22,000 temporary lecturers but has not revealed the mechanism. Rectors proposed that the academics on...
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Don's Diary
Friday Research day. Spend morning straddling the chasm between acoustic phonetics and language acquisition listening to two-year-old Geordies discussing the merits or otherwise of the Teletubby...
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On the move
Jenny Hobbs, director of the University of Durham's international office, will be acting principal of St Mary's College, Durham from April 1. She replaces Joan Kenworthy. Denys Turner, head of the...
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In the news
Question. Who said: "The past is much more than beefeaters, the Mary Queen of Scots experience and brown signs on the motorway. It is also the achievements of poets, painters, playwrights, musicians...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Susan Greenfield asked what is wrong with the way we do science in Britain? Bill Thompson PhD student Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. I am a fully qualified architect with an...
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Glittering prizes
John Lawton, director of the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, has been awarded the Zoological Society of London's Frink Medal for British zoologists for 1998, for his contributions...
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The THES Diary
I'll sit this one out Who will be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals? Strathclyde's Sir John Arbuthnott was originally proposed by Southampton's Howard Newby,...
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Bridge over troubled water
Kate Hughes looks at the common aspirations that unite Cyprus despite its geographical and political divide If history had been kinder to Cyprus, the establishment of a university in Nicosia in the...
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Vienna
The Austrian government has promised the University of Vienna money for more research on the causes and prevention of avalanches in the Alps. This follows the avalanche disaster in the Tyrolean...