VR winners:Computer Books
Virtual Production Planner software from Colt VR goes to the two winners of our June competition, John Smithson of Newcastle College and M. Wright of the University of Teesside. "The Eurovision Song...
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Strathclyde and Orange map videophone future:Computer Books
one day your mobile phone may show you movies and TV news, or help you find your way in an unfamiliar city centre. Researchers at Strathclyde University are taking a lead in developing video...
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Language, freedom to think and all that jazz:Computer Books
Mary Boland reports on a research lab funded by electronics giant Sony that is pursuing the secrets of communication - among other things Why do we love one kind of music and loathe another? What do...
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From Umbria to everywhere:Computer Books
Seven hilltop castles in Umbria are the nerve centres of a virtual university which will begin delivering courses this autumn to students across the globe. About 100 postgraduates will take a course...
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Beckett pulls no science punches
Scientists bemoaned the continuing dearth of new government money for science at the British Association's meeting in Leeds this week. This was despite an assurance from Margaret Beckett, president...
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US wages a books war
An association representing 90 per cent of university and college bookshops in the United States has sued Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press for charging them higher wholesale...
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Moving target: Colin Blakemore
(Photograph) - Moving target: Colin Blakemore, the incoming president of the British Association and for years the target of animal rights activists who oppose his experiments with animals, this week...
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Dean rehashed views on HIV
A PROFESSOR at City University has apologised in a journal for the way in which he used material from 14 academic papers in one review article. The apology, by Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial...
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The CAP doesn't fit environment
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Advisers to the European Commission's Directorate on Environment have warned...
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Stay-ahead students warm to technology fees
More than half of all public universities, a third of public two-year community colleges and a fifth of private colleges in the United States charged technology fees to students last year. Many have...
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Welsh fear high-speed lockout
Academics at geographically remote institutions could be the losers in the forthcoming upgrade of the SuperJANET network, which will provide faster connections at 34 to 155 megabits per second (Mbps...
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Downloading
(Photograph) - Downloading: Derek Fraser, Teesside University vice chancellor (second left), used Prime Minister Tony Blair's launch of Trimdon digital village last week to attack student fees and...
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Grade error
Queen's University, Belfast has formally apologised to students after an exams blunder left almost 1,000 applicants to both it and the University of Ulster in limbo. An electronic error meant many...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 0.6 per cent of first-degree graduates found employment in agriculture and forestry * 11 per cent of first-degree...
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Saw point
(Photograph) - Saw point: Bruce Cuthbert is one of a brigade of unemployed people busy working to build their own houses as part of a Pounds 500,000 project in Huddersfield to regenerate the city....