From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph The government should stop attacking elite universities for failing to recruit more state pupils and focus instead on the failings of comprehensive education, says Anthony Smith,...
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Money-spinning courses for foreigners - you're speaking our language
Nick Woods reports on the English language courses that are a boon for universities' coffers and culture "Everyone speaks English anyway." That is the typical argument British people use to avoid...
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Money-spinning courses for foreigners - you're speaking our language
Nick Woods reports on the English language courses that are a boon for universities' coffers and culture "Everyone speaks English anyway." That is the typical argument British people use to avoid...
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Filing cabinets of the pharaohs
Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
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Virtual visionaries net a new identity
Layout - Designing Online Identities - Web Design Basics - WWW Design: Flash - Personal Web Sites
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Filing cabinets of the pharaohs
Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
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Virtual visionaries net a new identity
Layout - Designing Online Identities - Web Design Basics - WWW Design: Flash - Personal Web Sites
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The rich, the poor, the thick and thin
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...
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Trans-Pacific cable speeds up dons' debate
A new submarine trans-Pacific cable network, capable of carrying 40 gigabits a second, will soon give Australian academics faster access to colleagues in North America. The Southern Cross Cable...
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Salford's Sydney site
Lester Stump has one of the key jobs in preparing for the Sydney Olympics - largely thanks to a University of Salford online masters degree in construction IT. He is overseeing construction of all 35...
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Making a splash down the ages
Boats of the World
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Don's diary: watch that cow
Friday An early start for Chennai, via Newcastle, Heathrow and Dubai. I am spending a week in southern India on behalf of the Sterling Group, an informal aggregate of 23 UK engineering departments...
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A global crisis we can't turn our backs on
The University of East London refugee studies programme is enabling research, free from prejudice, of a growing minority in most societies, says Philip Marfleet. Refugees have become a preoccupation...
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Commissioner Erkki Liikanen: "EU-India Opportunities: The IST Programme", 2004 Euro India Co-operation Forum on the Information Society, New Delhi, 25 March 2004
The political environment for research In Europe, we want to become a more competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy. To achieve this, we need to focus on European-wide investment in research...
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Teacher trainers think global
The first international conference for heads of teacher-training institutions has laid the foundations for setting up a worldwide teacher-training network. The three-day Paris conference, "Priorities...