Legal Journal
Law school lecturers at the University of Newcastle have put the UK's first electronic law journal on the World Wide Web, via the Internet. Mike Allen and Bruce Grant launched the bi-monthly Web...
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The billion byte brain
Since the Renaissance, scientific progress has been built on two planks: theory and experiment. Although these continue to be crucial to progress, what happens when the equations are not amenable to...
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How to prevent Internet gridlock
The transport user has little interest in planes, trains and automobiles, but wants to get from A to B quickly, safely, comfortably, securely and as cheaply as possible. The information user has...
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Mining the data-lode
We may be on the slip road to the information superhighway, but unfortunately it is rush hour all day every day. It does not help that the road is clogged with HGVs with "Bulk Data" stencilled on...
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Queen's speech
Legislation is to be introduced to improve conditions for people with disabilities and to develop the management of the National Health Service, it was announced in the Queen's speech this week. No...
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Food extension
A Pounds 1 million extension to Reading University's food studies building was opened this week. The extension, financed by 25 companies in the food industry, will house laboratory space, additional...
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In bloom
(Photograph) - In bloom: Colin Muir of the University of Bournemouth models a stone acanthus leaf as part of the university's architectural conservation work. As well as being one of the winners of...
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Polys blighted
Nearly a third of employers surveyed by employment research group Industrial Relations Services feel the former polytechnics produce graduates of a lower calibre than the old universities. The figure...
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Teens on the up
The proportion of 16 to 18-year olds participating in education rose to 67 per cent in 1992/93 -- a 3 percentage point rise on the previous year and 14 percentage points up on 1982/83, according to...
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Target failure
The Government's target for half of all employers with more than 200 employees to achieve the Investors in People training standard by 1996 is unlikely to be reached, the Labour Party claimed this...
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Efficiency flop
The Royal Society has concluded that the Government's efficiency scrutiny of the 53 public sector research establishments is "inappropriate". It says there is no evidence that the scrutiny review...
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Grate bunch
(Photograph) - King Carrot, mascot of City University student union, and 20 minions performed a 21-carrot salute at the Lord Mayor's Show in London last week to welcome Alderman Christopher Walford,...
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Banner man
(Photograph) - NUS president Jim Murphy at Battersea Park, London, for this week's demonstration against the replacement of student grants by loans. NUS stewards traded hundreds of these red placards...
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AUT ready for double trouble
A membership war between the two main lecturers' unions will be fuelled further by revelations that the Association of University Teachers wants separate national negotiations for old and new...
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Leaked loans plans dismissed
Economists have dismissed two models for privatising the student loans scheme being considered by the Government as financially and politically unattractive both to students and the private sector....