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RELEASE 2.0: A DESIGN FOR LIVING IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Esther Dyson. Viking. Pounds 15.99. - ISBN 0 670 87600 3. This is the future according to the wired and wiry woman who swims by herself, somehow...
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AFFECTIVE COMPUTING. Rosalind Picard. MIT Press. Pounds 23.50, - ISBN 0 262 16170 2. Unhumbled by their failure to replicate human intelligence, computer scientists are now doing their best to model...
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Blues sisters
(Photograph) - Jackie Street of Oxford crosses for a try in last weekend's women's varsity rugby union match, in which home team Oxford defeated Cambridge by 22 points to 5 Photograph by ROB JUDGES
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THE INTERNET FOR SCIENTISTS. Kevin O'Donnell and Larry Winger. Harwood Academic Publishers. Pounds 30.00 and Pounds 14.50. - ISBN 90 5702 221 4 and 90 5702 222 2. Much more than a guide to scientific...
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AUTS defends degree
The Association of University Teachers Scotland plans a broad campaign in defence of the four-year honours degree, which it fears is threatened by the proposed changes in student support. Delegates...
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Labour party activists attack tuition fees at Scottish conference
Labour party activists attacked tuition fees at last weekend's annual Scottish conference, but delegates narrowly defeated a resolution condemning the fees as a "retrograde step". Emma Peattie, a...
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Labour suffers setback on bill
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill completed its House of Lords stages this week, but not before the government had suffered another defeat. The government went down by 137 votes to 112 on an...
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Eye robot
(Photograph) - Sex, gambling and underwater magic are on the cards as universities open their doors for the annual science, engineering and technology week. Lectures, exhibitions and competitions -...
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Little change in class make-up
MORE than half of the students accepted by universities and colleges last year came from the top two social classes, representing less than 40 per cent of the population. Just 10 per cent of students...
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Peerless manners shown
It is a truth self-evident to readers of this paper that discussing higher education for long enough will inflame the most mild-mannered. Experimentally tested on the House of Lords, the most...
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Poll support for German fees
Nearly half Germany's students would support tuition fees if the money went directly into improving university quality and was financed by a loan system, according to an opinion poll. The poll,...
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Cornwall looks for credit
A NEW university in Cornwall could become a testbed for regional credit accumulation and transfer, its supporters say. Managers at Exeter University, which has hit problems in setting up a campus at...
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MPs blast council for ocean centre cost
IN A STORMY session last week, the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee demanded answers to what one MP called the "mess" surrounding the Southampton Oceanography Centre. The centre opened two...
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Monograph debut for PSA-Routledge
A subject group and a commercial publisher are set to reverse the trend of recent academic publishing by starting a new monograph series, writes Huw Richards. The deal has still to be sealed formally...
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Academic-turned-MP rises to PPS position
Meteorology was never Tony McNulty's academic field, but he is happy to tell anybody about clouds and silver linings: "I thought it was the end of the world when I did not get on to the education and...