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...
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Web organisers book front seats
PROCITE INTERNET ENABLER, PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE (Europe) (+44 1865 326612) Pounds 69 +VAT, Windows diskette Just when it was beginning to get difficult to find clear distinctions between...
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What is so great about lectures?
The SToMP project was supported by the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme. It originally involved departments at the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, Open University,...
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Lessons from the burning man
A RIGHT TO DIE? THE DAX COWART CASE, By David Anderson, Robert, Cavalier & Preston K. Covey, Routledge (+44 171 583 9855), Pounds 35 + VAT (single user) Macintosh/Windows CD, ISBN 0 415 91753...
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Lined up
And a rather mystifed hello to Warwick University's expert on chaos theory, Professor Series.
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I, Robot
(Photograph) - I, Robot: James O'Gorman, an art and design student at the University of Wales College, Newport, exhibits his humanoid robot at the college's degree show last month.
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Verbs to verse
(Photograph) - Verbs to verse: Karl-Heinz Von Rothenburg teaches Latin with classical music or catchy tunes playing in the background at the Bielefeld Institute for Alternative Teaching and Learning...