Net phone slashes costs
A significant obstacle in the development of effective communication between European education institutions has been removed with the successful launch of a new cost-cutting telecommunications...
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Masterful
(Photograph) - Masterful: The Royal Society of Arts is launching a new category in its Student Design awards - Communication and Landscape - that aims to replace ugly communications antennae with...
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Medical video focuses on rare views of brain
An educational video in the final stages of production should give medical science undergraduates a rare view of the brain. The video, in the online editing stage and due for release in the next...
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Abertay makes play for share of Pounds 45bn market
The University of Abertay, Dundee aims to boost Scotland's share of the Pounds 45 billion European software market with a pioneering MSc in computer games and virtual reality. The MSc in software...
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Global credit
Australia's Monash University has subscribed to the standards set by the Global Alliance for Transnational Education, and will have its courses listed on GATE's database. GATE was founded by the...
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Athens heads the new revolution
Greece is gearing up for the information society, Petros Stefaneas reports The past three years have seen a revolution in Greek higher education. But this one - unlike the revolutions of the early...
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Pointing to quality
Encyclopedia Britannica has launched an online index to quality resources on the Internet (www.ebig.com). Unlike the online version of the encyclopedia itself, the service is currently free, leaving...
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Big footprint
The University of Southern California will use digital satellite broadcasting to reach the entire contiguous United States with distance learning programmes which help professionals obtain masters...
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Virtually built
University College London's new Virtual Reality Centre for the Built Environment has been opened, with the help of Pounds 2.5 milllion from the Government's Foresight initiative. UCL researchers have...
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Fact file
Of UK domiciled ethnic minority undergraduates: * 25.7 per cent are Indian * 14.6 per cent are black African * 6.7 per cent are Chinese
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Training wanted
Postgraduate research students want mandatory training in research methods, a new study has found. Only half of PhD students are given research methods training, according to the survey conducted for...
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Ravensbourne hat-trick
Students at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication won first, second and runners-up prizes in the PROMAX UK awards last Friday for promotion and marketing in electronic media. Dave Stewart...
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HTML offshoot promises to deliver multimedia for the masses
A new and easy-to-use language that will merge television and the World Wide Web has been developed by an industrial-academic alliance. If adopted as a standard, it will enable high-quality...
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The builder's estimate that misses bricks and mortar
Dearing's figures for the expansion of networked desktop computers seem affordable but Lawrie Schonfelder finds neglected costs that will stretch budgets The Dearing report stresses the importance of...
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Library users queue for the kiosk mode
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 University of North London librarian...