One-stop shop taps image bank wealth
Kodak has turned to United Kingdom academics to solve a problem that the company's founder George Eastman may not have foreseen when he set the world's shutters clicking. Billions of images now exist...
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Never having to say sorry
Andrew Charlesworth looks at criminal liability in the fourth of his series on Internet law. What should or should not be published, what is or is not obscene, and what the general public have or do...
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United goals are a net gain for the city
Whatever the outcome of Newcastle United’s bid for their first championship in nearly 70 years, there is little doubt that the performance of Kevin Keegan’s team over the past three seasons has done...
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In a glass of their own
The extremely hard behind-the-scenes work that has gone into making Strathclyde University's bicentenary a success may not be generally recognised. But the university newsletter is at least giving...
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Blinded by science
Metaphors for divine intervention abounded at the God and Science conference held by King's College London's Centre for Philosophical Studies last week. The more empirically minded delegates hunted...
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Taking Ambridge
Great excitement among radio soap listeners at Heriot-Watt University at the appointment of John Archer as the next vice chancellor, with fans of Radio 4's venerable chronicle of country folk...
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Medical record
Alumnus to be proud of no 47 is Brian Mawhinney, the mild-mannered and conciliatory Conservative Party chairman, whose efforts to raise the tone of political debate have been so appreciated in recent...
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'Closure by deceit' claim over axed MSc
Staff and students in Edinburgh University's beleaguered centre for human ecology have accused university management of attempting "closure by deceit" in axing its MSc course. They claim the CHE has...
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Quality-funds link fear
College heads are alarmed at indications that the English funding council is paving the way towards a direct link between quality judgements and funding. In a written version of his speech to last...
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Foreign language teaching tips swap
A Government-funded knowledge exchange has been created to disseminate best practice in foreign language teaching in the workplace. The Network in Vocational Foreign Languages, dubbed Hevocal, is a...
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Privatised focus for Royal stargazers
The Royal Observatories could be privatised and the management of the United Kingdom's overseas telescopes in Hawaii and the Canary Islands should be contracted out, according to a review and as...
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Bathed in glory
Such is the relationship between Bath University and the city's rugby club, that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Richard Mawditt, ex-registrar of the university and...
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Scientists take a mystical turn
Popularisers of science have become as dogmatic as the 17th-century church that rejected Galileo's theory, a conference on God and Science heard last week. Some scientists are making mystical claims...
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Dawkins lecture
Richard Dawkins, the outspoken proponent of natural selection as the sole machinery of biological development, last week launched his latest attempt to persuade the world that no religious...
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Oxbridge wins donation race
British universities raised an estimated Pounds 114 million in donations last year, according to a survey by fundraising consultants Oxford Philanthropic. But the donations were unevenly distributed...