`This is a time for broad thinking'
The Economic and Social Research Council has identified nine key themes to guide it into the next millennium. Kam Patel reports Nine research themes, ranging from the behaviour of the national and...
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The gap between the real world and the words
Since the concordat for career management of contract research staff was introduced, its implementation has been patchy. At Imperial College two contract researchers are taking the struggle to the...
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Rotation cuts frustration
The Wellcome Trust's project to train postgrads for a year in different labs is being expanded. Olga Wojtas reports on how it has taken off at Glasgow University, now one of the premier research...
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Cold wind blows on growth hope
The looming recession, formally acknowledged by ministers for the first time this week, could scupper plans to raise higher education funding, economists and vice-chancellors have warned. The...
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Corruption inquiry hits SA university
An inquiry is under way into unrest, labour practices and allegations of corruption at the University of the North, Turfloop. It is the fourth South African higher education institution to be probed...
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Private sector wins case for public fees
A private college in Dublin has won an important High Court case establishing its right to run publicly funded degree courses in computer science. Last year Griffith College was invited to tender for...
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Refugees welcomed with grant
Academics who have fled persecution or the ravages of war could find a lifeline in Canada if the University of Toronto raises the cash for refugee fellowships. The fund will provide invited...
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Albanian students arrested
Inter-ethnic fighting in Kosovo and disturbances in Albania have had a knock-on effect in Macedonia, where ethnic Albanians make up more than 20 per cent of the population. There have been numerous...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Booker prize judge Valentine Cunningham asked whether such competitions as the Booker, which blend writing, money and public relations, add anything to our academic study of...
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Hylife on the electronic frontier
Tony Durham sorts clumps from hybrids in phase three of eLib The Electronic Libraries research programme, launched after the 1993 Follett report, is now in its third phase with 30 projects active at...
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Grand central
The New Athenaeum web site is a central registry for Internet resource guides developed as a metaguide by libraries and librarians. It aims to pool intellectual resources via hyperlinks and is sorted...
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Hawking home
A Pounds 7.5 million gift to the University of Cambridge from Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore and his wife Betty will fund the Physical Sciences and Technology Library, housing the Stephen...
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Suffolk university
A Pounds 1,460,000 grant from the European Social Fund and technical support from BT will kickstart a two-year pilot project in Suffolk that aims to build the infrastructure for a dispersed...
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Material reward
The Council for Learning Resources in Colleges is offering a Pounds 500 award for innovative use of information and learning technology, for example internet/intranet pages of the learning resource...
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Cure for hype on the cards
Web data needs to be sorted by people we trust. Step forward the librarians says Stephen Pinfield. For years we have relied on librarians to catalogue books. On ledgers and cards, then on microfiche...