Techno fare
Eugenics, global warming, chaos, smart fabrics: science in the 1990s including the scary bits is examined in Dystopia (www.hu.ic.ac.uk/ scicom/dystopia.htm), an e-zine emanating from Imperial College...
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Why Bertie and Twootie failed at university
Computerised logic teaching was the thing, in the past decade. But ten years on, what has happened? Where have all the plans and hopes gone? Most of the brave new programs of the 1980s are gathering...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Celia Williams has been appointed the first Daphne Jackson Fellow, funded by the university and Lloyds Bank. Dr Williams will be working on a problem related to new drugs which...
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Olympics get wired
The success of the Olympic games, about to open in Atlanta, may depend as much on fibre-optic cable and state-of-the-art software as on muscle and determination. Never before has an event of any kind...
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Postal delay
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has postponed its plan to send out press releases by email. This and many other projects are on hold as the CVCP mobilises for the university funding...
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The team-built prototype
Diana Laurillard tells Tim Greenhalgh why national coordination is essential to realise lifelong learning. Not long after her appointment as the Open University's first Pro Vice Chancellor with...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DLitt: Doris Lessing, author; Walter Burkert, professor of classical philology, University of Zurich; Norman Foster, architect; Amartya Kumar Sen, former fellow of All Souls...
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Blair backs mining village plan
The University of Teesside is backing an initiative to regenerate the former mining village of Trimdon in County Durham. Labour leader and local MP Tony Blair has given the project his support and...
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Scots link chip firms
A new National Microelectronics Institute, based in Heriot-Watt University's research park, will use information technology to deliver industrial training to semiconductor manufacturing companies...
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A supplement, not simply a substitute
Jon Marcus follows the growth of online US courses and the anxieties the development engenders in the nation's academics. An increasing number of Americans are attending college on a campus without...
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Bosses back flagging PFI
Britain's business leaders are backing the controversial private finance initiative which the Government hopes will offset the Pounds 170 million cuts in higher education funding. Just a week after...
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Edinburgh goes back to school
Edinburgh University is inviting teachers and pupils from local schools into its computer teaching laboratory during the summer vacation, to see that there is more to computer science than word...
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Six areas add up to infomaths
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the London Mathematical Society have launched a three-year initiative to reconnect computer science to its roots in mathematics. The...
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Cutting costs at a stroke abroad
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
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Clinton versus the Internet
Andrew Charlesworth reports that the US government may still win the battle for control of online content. On February 8, President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act 1996, including the...