Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...
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In search of the perfect image
The ambitious US plan to build a universal digital library has already produced some useful spin-offs. We are two years into the four-year Digital Library Initiative, a $24 million research programme...
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Scots shoot up . . .
The number of full-time higher education students in Scotland rose to 142,722 in 1994/95, an increase of 8 per cent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Scottish Office Education...
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Disc world
Micro-reviews of 400 educational CD-Roms, mostly school-age titles, have been put on the Web at ncet.csv.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/projects/mpftp/software/software.html. Education departments, teacher...
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Brewer's group
While many former students feel their entire first year was spent in a brewery, for 1,000 starting at Leeds University this year it will be true. The former Kirkstall Brewery has been converted into...
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Emotions trapped
The Wellcome Trust has split Pounds 800,000 for research into neurological disorders between five institutions, including the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,...
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Queen's banned IRA victim
The spectre of terrorism has returned to haunt Queen's University, Belfast, in spite of the precarious peace that still persists in the province. Two weeks ago Sean Devlin was shot dead in front of a...
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Pulped days, blurred nights
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. University administrators may think freshers' week is for helping new students settle into unfamiliar...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Just old codswallop
Eric Laithwaite's review of my book, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science (THES, June 21), makes little attempt to discharge the first duty of a reviewer, namely to give readers some...
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From piety to a cosmic order
It would be a mistake to dismiss Roger Scruton's recent arguments on animals and their lack of rights as narrow and partisan, argues David Wiggins. Indeed they come in a framework that offers the...
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Highlands aims even higher
The University of the Highlands and Islands project is to seek Pounds 10 million from the European Union following its success this week in winning Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission...
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Cash for the best, says v-c
Cambridge University is to campaign for funding arrangements that will preserve its position among the world's elite higher education institutions, its new vice chancellor said this week. Alec Broers...
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Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...