Healthy rule change
Overseas students coming to Scotland are to win complete access to National Health Service care following changes in NHS rules this month. Their case was taken up by Brian Potter, Scottish secretary...
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Rights deal on digitised data
Publishers and higher education representatives have acted to remove the legal uncertainties which surround the use of digitised books and journals in teaching and research. The Publishers...
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Record breakers
A new web site for the Public Record Office (PRO), the national archives, will contain the beginnings of one of the largest online archive catalogues in the world. By the year 2001 it should contain...
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Career moves
Two new careers advice sites for students in the construction industry and the legal profession have been launched. The Construction Industry Training Board's site at www.citb.org.uk includes an...
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Cinemas to show double bill of Euro films and democracy
Europe could have a network of several thousand "Cyber-cinemas" screening digital movies distributed by satellite in the next century. The cinemas could double as electronic town halls linking...
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Oxford wins cash to probe barriers to online learning
International online learning is to come under scrutiny at Oxford University following a $30, 000 grant received by the department of continuing education. The grant, from the Alfred P Sloan...
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UK firm links Australian campuses to worldwide book shelves
AUSTRALIA'S vice chancellors believe they have created a world first: their staff and students will soon be able to borrow library books from anywhere on the globe using a simple Internet interface....
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Altered states
(Photograph) - Altered states: Australian performance artist Stelarc at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex uses his third robot arm controlled by electrodes...
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Beached box
(Photograph) - THE latest marine technology was on display in Brighton this week as part of Oceanography International 98. Among the inventions exhibited is this box-corer designed to collect...
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A HAL of a way to take the chip off Marvin's cold shoulder
Roz Picard tells Tony Durham why the search for ways to give computers emotionality is not just navel-gazing Marvin the paranoid android had a brain as big as a planet and the lack of intelligent...
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Added values in the search for a perfect equation
As maths becomes more an integral part of diverse courses, Lindsay Aitkenhead finds that software often does not add up Sheffield Hallam University, in common with other new universities, is widening...
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Chemistry set queue for a budget slice of super power
A cost-effective formula for large-scale computation using the Internet is proving its worth, David Bradley reports When the announcement came four years ago that the University of London Computer...
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Remote control in the magic of manufacture
Frank Booty reports on video conferencing projects that put students in control of advanced manufacturing technology More than 4,000 students in the United Kingdom are using videoconferencing and...
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Pettiness, possession, petulance and pride
The network that brings computing power to your desktop is not electronic, it is social, says William Keenan Time was when the knowledge revolution, the postmodern child of the modern scientific...
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Science
THE BOOK FROM THE SITE. Martyn Lewis. Lennard Publishing. Pounds 8.99 . - ISBN 1-85291 131 X. This cheerful guide to opportunities for young people began as a book by TV journalist Martyn Lewis and...