Pride and prejudice
Andrew Pakes argues that academics are wrong to oppose anonymous marking of work At a time of passion and high emotion it is important that academics understand why students have launched a campaign...
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CVCP reforms go back to drawing board
Vice-chancellors have called for a rethink on proposals for an overhaul of their representative body. They have told a working group reviewing the membership and structure of the Committee of Vice-...
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Head for IT
Simon Marsden, director of management information at the University of Edinburgh, has been elected chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). www.ucisa.ac.uk.
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Triple link
Peterborough Regional College has installed a Pounds 200,000 network linking three sites on two "virtual LANs" for students and staff. The Nortel Networks Gigabit Ethernet solution, installed by...
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Correction
The salary increase for Paisley University's vice-chancellor, Richard Shaw, in The THES league table of salaries (February 5) between 1996-97 and 1997-98 is 3 per cent and not 11.1 per cent. This...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES..we asked how you split the child care Penelope Griffin Equity research officerUniversity of South Australia By moving back to Australia. Child care for our 16-month-old...
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Agony Aunt
Q) Shouldn't universities be promoting lecturers on the basis of their teaching ability rather than just their publication record? A frustrated pedagogue A) Yes they should and, more critically, they...
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`Why enrol at poppleton when you can study at harvard?'
British universities and colleges are poorly organised to take advantage of the globalisation of higher education. So warns a discussion paper on higher education in the 21st century prepared by...
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Calls for intellectual property agreement
The Association of University Teachers wants a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, employers and publishers. The union has drawn up a draft "model agreement" and...
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Tuition fees top of NUS agenda
Thousands of students will descend on Blackpool next week for the first National Union of Students conference since its members started paying tuition fees. The impact of fees and new maintenance...
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Access for all
(Photograph) - Oxford University undergraduate Charles Blacklock shows potential applicant Philip Nartey around as part of a 'shadowing' scheme to encourage ethnic minorities to come to Oxford. It...
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Funders likely to favour bids for single-site CTI successors
A two-stage bidding process extending over the spring and summer will pick teams to run 24 subject-based teaching and learning centres. Working under contract to a central management unit at the new...
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VE day
The University of Salford is leading an academic-industry partnership to exploit Virtual Environment (VE) research. The project has won Pounds 1.7million from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Network futures
UKERNA has released the results of a study by John Dyer into the future of the academic network architecture, to encourage comment (www.ja.net/ documents/net_arch.html). The document outlines the...
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Lenin gets a new lease of life
Europe's largest library is about to go online. Nick Holdsworth reports. The Lenin Library is going online. More than 40 years after Europe's biggest public library opened its doors to readers,...