UK lab leads Web vision
The Rutherford Appleton laboratory in Oxfordshire will host the first European World Wide Web Consortium Office. It will lead a European Union-backed plan to encourage businesses to adopt Web...
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Copyright rules change
New UK regulations for the first time provide specific copyright protection for the information in databases. The regulations, which came into force on January 1, implement a European Community...
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Special relationship
Birmingham University is among the first partners in a Pounds 17.5 million IBM scheme designed to give up to 10,000 students in 150 universities and colleges worldwide essential skills for the widely...
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Back to the future
A small Norwegian company, backed enthusiastically by a community of higher education researchers worldwide, has launched a lean browser as an alternative to the increasingly memory-hungry Big Two (...
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Italian 24-hour TV beams fast show courses to Albania
A consortium of Italian universities and the University of Tirana has acquired its own satellite television channel, which will broadcast university courses to thousands of students in Italy, Albania...
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Video-on-demand technology
(Photograph) - Video-on-demand technology is at the heart of an interactive networked information system to promote Liverpool Hope University College to visitors at the city's Albert Dock. The...
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Deadhead virus stalks students
The virulent organism Surfobacter necrocognos is a threat to human knowledge. It attacks habitual Internet users, destroying the mind's ability to decide what information it needs to support the...
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An academic star in waiting takes the first screen test
Archives of more than a century of moving pictures for teaching and research may soon be available via broadband networks, Murray Weston reports There is increasing interest in extending viewer...
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Experts to make online tuition less of a lottery
Educationists and teacher trainers should seize the opportunity presented by the lottery-funded National Grid for Learning, Christina Preston says Teachers have been deterred from getting on the...
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Learning the price of quality
The UK will only have excellent multimedia in education when it pays for higher production costs, says Jeremy Keenan Terry Speake and James Powell's recent article in The THES ("The Missing Link in...
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First move in a global game plan
Masoud Yazdani (right) tells Claire Neesham how he plans to build a rival to the MIT Media Lab from a new base in Bristol Building, electrical wiring and foundations are just some of the topics...
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All systems glow
(Photograph) - All systems glow: Liverpool John Moores University staged a laser display last week to celebrate its 175th anniversary. In 1823 the editor of the Liverpool Mercury founded the...
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Off centre
Three days after Twelfth Night, The THES needs your help with a late Christmas puzzle. It was very kind of "The Centre" to send us a Christmas card - but who are you? Your staff appear to include...
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Drugs are everywhere
WHEN William Straw goes to Oxford in 1999 after his year off - if he achieves his expected A-level grades - he is likely to find more than a third of his fellow students have experimented with drugs...
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A degree in dealing
Student supplier makes Pounds 1,000 a month JOHN (not his real name) sells drugs. A business studies undergraduate, he did not go to university with the intention of becoming a dealer. "It was...