StrongARM speed captured on the television screen
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise Cambridge-based Acorn Computer...
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The 'follow-you' desktop takes shape virtually in Cambridge
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise A Cambridge research laboratory has...
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The Web's vibrant offspring
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise The personal computer fostered the...
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Warrington's Pounds 2m transfer
Halton College students are set to enjoy multimedia education on a super-fast network, Nick Farrell reports Halton College principal Martin Jenkins has just spent Pounds 2 million building a network...
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Cinderellas arrive late at the ball
Brian Dyson appeals for longer-term funding of archive collections, until recently the poor relation in the library service, as they flower on the web Information technology buffs have a habit of...
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First chance for many, last chance for Earth
Tony Durham talks to the president of Commonweath of Learning, Gajaraj Dhanarajan (below) about the triumph of distance learning in Asia For a child whose school journey began with a two-mile pre-...
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The missing link in multimedia
The UK is failing to produce a generation of cross-disciplinary managers essential to avoid 'multi-mediocre' learning packages Terry Speake and James Powell argue The worldwide demand for advanced...
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The worldwide wealth of resources in miniature
BURKS 2. John English, University of Brighton. email: je@brighton.ac.uk Pounds 3.00 inc. VAT. Windows CD. Getting information quickly off the Net always seems to be a lost cause while at university,...
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Doers can be made
THE ARTICLE entitled "The Road to a Nation of Business Builders" (THES, October 31) addresses a critical issue for British universities; how do you develop educational programmes for your next...
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Cloning in context
IN HIS review of Gina Kolata's book on cloning (THES, November 7), Martin Ince quotes me out of context in the BBC's Horizon programme where I was additionally edited out of context. The point I was...
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Oxford is of the people
ASA student admissions officer at Oxford University I spend a great deal of time attempting to dispel the myth that the university is populated exclusively by rich, pretentious, public school-...
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Culture and class queries
SARA SELWOOD's article (THES, November 7) contains misapprehensions. The statistics she provides about employment in the cultural sector and its economic significance are only superficially...
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In defence of theory
WHILE not unsympathetic to some of the view's expressed by Raymond Tallis on the life and work of Jacques Lacan (THES, October 31) it was predictable that your paper would ask Tallis to review...
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Blackstone fudge on college fees
OXFORD and Cambridge face a bleak future if the college fee is withdrawn, Lords said this week. In a debate heavily weighted towards keeping the fees, speakers gave a vision of two once-great...
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Malay millions at risk
BRITISH universities face losing millions of pounds through a sharp decline in students from Malaysia following a shock decision by their government to axe tax concessions for study abroad. The move...