A cost-effective formula for large-scale computation using the Internet is proving its worth, David Bradley reports When the announcement came four years ago that the University of London Computer...
Frank Booty reports on video conferencing projects that put students in control of advanced manufacturing technology More than 4,000 students in the United Kingdom are using videoconferencing and...
The network that brings computing power to your desktop is not electronic, it is social, says William Keenan Time was when the knowledge revolution, the postmodern child of the modern scientific...
THE BOOK FROM THE SITE. Martyn Lewis. Lennard Publishing. Pounds 8.99 . - ISBN 1-85291 131 X. This cheerful guide to opportunities for young people began as a book by TV journalist Martyn Lewis and...
RELEASE 2.0: A DESIGN FOR LIVING IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Esther Dyson. Viking. Pounds 15.99. - ISBN 0 670 87600 3. This is the future according to the wired and wiry woman who swims by herself, somehow...
AFFECTIVE COMPUTING. Rosalind Picard. MIT Press. Pounds 23.50, - ISBN 0 262 16170 2. Unhumbled by their failure to replicate human intelligence, computer scientists are now doing their best to model...
(Photograph) - Jackie Street of Oxford crosses for a try in last weekend's women's varsity rugby union match, in which home team Oxford defeated Cambridge by 22 points to 5 Photograph by ROB JUDGES
THE INTERNET FOR SCIENTISTS. Kevin O'Donnell and Larry Winger. Harwood Academic Publishers. Pounds 30.00 and Pounds 14.50. - ISBN 90 5702 221 4 and 90 5702 222 2. Much more than a guide to scientific...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland plans a broad campaign in defence of the four-year honours degree, which it fears is threatened by the proposed changes in student support. Delegates...
Labour party activists attacked tuition fees at last weekend's annual Scottish conference, but delegates narrowly defeated a resolution condemning the fees as a "retrograde step". Emma Peattie, a...
The Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill completed its House of Lords stages this week, but not before the government had suffered another defeat. The government went down by 137 votes to 112 on an...
(Photograph) - Sex, gambling and underwater magic are on the cards as universities open their doors for the annual science, engineering and technology week. Lectures, exhibitions and competitions -...
MORE than half of the students accepted by universities and colleges last year came from the top two social classes, representing less than 40 per cent of the population. Just 10 per cent of students...
It is a truth self-evident to readers of this paper that discussing higher education for long enough will inflame the most mild-mannered. Experimentally tested on the House of Lords, the most...
Nearly half Germany's students would support tuition fees if the money went directly into improving university quality and was financed by a loan system, according to an opinion poll. The poll,...