Apple Mach
Turn a modem-equipped Mac Classic into an Internet server for Pounds 180? It should be possible according to Shute Associates who are offering 50 per cent academic discounts on a Pounds 359 Macintosh...
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Eye opener
For people with a hunger for knowledge and either insomnia or a video recorder, BBC Further Education has launched The Learning Zone. The BBC2 channel now carries Open University and other...
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News breakers
The three-day Media Waves conference at the University of Brighton begins next Thursday, October 19. Speakers include former Live TV executive Janet Street-Porter. The conference spotlights the...
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Site seeing
The first Virtual Heritage conference (Assembly Rooms, Bath, 22 November 1995) will discuss the use of computer graphics to recreate buildings which no longer exist, including Cluny Abbey and the...
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PG tips
Postgraduates, often the forgotten members of the campus community, have an ally in the National Postgraduate Commission. Jamie Darwen returns this month to Nottingham University after a year at the...
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Higher wire
Boston College, which has links to the Jesuit order, has posted some useful Web pages on international higher education at http://www.bc.edu/bc org/avp/ soe/cihe/Center.html
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US veto deprives Scots of lucrative honour
Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor of St Andrews University's school of mathematical and computational sciences have won fame if not fortune for their pioneering computer software design work. They...
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Fellowships
SCRE The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education Department...
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SuperJANET fights shy of backbone role
The chairman of the committee supervising the country's only existing information superhighway, the broadband academic network SuperJANET, has indicated that SuperJANET should not be seen as a ready-...
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Maltese forum
Business and political leaders gathered yesterday in Malta for the beginning of the Crans-Montana Forum. The switch from the usual Swiss venue to a Mediterranean location reflects this year's subject...
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Promotions
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Readerships: Chris Durston, principal lecturer, reader in history; David Worral, senior lecturer, reader in English literature. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Readerships: The...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE DLitt: Rabbi Julia Neuberger; Dame Elizabeth Esteve Coll, former keeper of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, vice chancellor at the University of East...
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Grants
IMPERIAL COLLEGE Charities Professor H. Morris, Pounds 226,336 from the British Heart Foundation (identification, biochemical characteristics and physiological relevance of a new nitric oxide...
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Events
TOP MARKS ART. Top Marks 95 is a new show featuring the work of students who were awarded first-class honours degrees the London Institute's five colleges. It will run until October 26 at The London...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Bruce Doern (on half-time three-year secondment from the school of administration, Carleton University, Ottawa), chair of public policy; Duncan Bruce (senior lecturer, University...