Honorary degrees
DON STATE UNIVERSITY, ROSTOV. Peter West, secretary of the University of Strathclyde has been awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his participation in cooperation between the two...
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UK wins top awards
In a ceremony held in the middle of an Austrian lake, teams from the United Kingdom learned that they had swept up four of the ten European Academic Software Awards for 1995/96. The UK successes were...
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Seeking agreement
If the multi-party talks cannot come up with a solution to Ireland's political differences, perhaps the Internet can. David Newman of Queens University, Belfast is running so-called "online...
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ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY. The Robert Gordon University has launched a Pounds 10 million fundraising campaign to create chairs and research fellowships in primary health care, heritage management,...
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Fast net links eight Welsh sites with new vision
A new computer network facilitating rapid communication between eight university institutions in South Wales is being completed this summer. The system will link the University of Wales's five...
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Address space
Internet addresses - not email addresses but the unique identification numbers of Internet 'host' computers - are running out. But the shortage should be solved over the next few years as hosts...
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Northern exposure
Britain's most northerly art school has more reason than most to put its degree show on the Web, since so many potential visitors live hundreds of miles from Aberdeen. For those unable to visit the...
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Taking the lonely out of distance learning
Brian Gilding, Paul Helm and Robert McClements detail a case history of distance learning development that emphasises the personal element The Bradford Management Centre's executive development...
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All are equal in the face of loans
The Dearing inquiry is primarily about funding. Without robust proposals on how to pay for higher education, its report will be little more than platitudes. Who will find the extra cash? The Labour...
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Information Broadway
(Photograph) - Departing from the usual surf'n'slurp cybercafe formula, the new Biblio@Tech cyber centre in Fulham Broadway, west London, hopes to attract students and business people with its...
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Trainees online help plan
IT apprentices armed with a PC and a modem will be able to take part in online tutorials if discussions between the Information Technology Industry Training Organisation and BT go according to plan,...
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Tools of the trade for the next genius generation
Alison Utley finds caution mixed with optimism in the planned Leeds multimedia showcase centre Imagine what the creative genius of Leonardo would have come up with had he been able to get his hands...
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Avoiding the all mod cons
GUIDELINES FOR WRITERS IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AND MULTIMEDIA Edited by Jane Dorner Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society 32pp, free to members You are a writer. You write academic texts and...
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Examine closely
What should the role of external examiners be in future? The 糖心Vlog Quality Council's report this week articulates what everyone has known for some time: that the external examiner system...
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Loan voice
(Photograph) - Student leader Jim Murphy has suspended one of his own executive committee members for allegedly breaching union rules. Mr Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, wrote to...