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Journalists in the United Kingdom will have much wider access to higher education through two free Internet services being launched by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. ExperNet is a...
Journalists in the United Kingdom will have much wider access to higher education through two free Internet services being launched by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. ExperNet is a...
Exposed The Museum of the History of Science has launched a World-Wide Web service which includes photographs from the 1840s and 1850s, among the 150 images for viewing at low and medium resolution.(...
Dispersed trainers are logging on to conferencing-based masters modules. Many institutions now run distance-learning courses. However, the Advanced Learning Technology programme offered by the Centre...
UNIVERSITY OF READING Readerships: John Abraham, reader in sociology; Jennifer Ames, reader in food chemistry; Grenville Astill, reader in archaeology; Leszek Frasinski, reader in atomic and...
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Research contracts Dr S Bond, Pounds 622,862 from Department of Health (organisation and delivery of direct patient care services): Professor J Burn, Pounds 74,869...
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Honorary fellowships Douglas Cullen, senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session; Norman Foster, director, Norman Foster & Partners; Robert...
DEBATE ON EUROPE A debate on "Making the European Union Work" led by Helmut Schmidt, Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Edward Heath, and chaired by John Ashworth will be held at the London School of...
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ARTS Deanna Petherbridge, an artist who writes on art, architecture and drawing, has been appointed professor of drawing from September 1995. Deanna Petherbridge has held sessional...
A shake-up in Europe's academic networking organisation has followed the resignation of its president and executive committee, writes Helena Flusfeder. Dissatisfaction among members with the way the...
Dundee University is to mount an internal publicity campaign on its computing code of conduct following the discovery that a student published an alleged bomb recipe on the university's Internet...
In a bold bid to break the vicious circle of rising journal prices and cancelled subscriptions, academic publishers and the funding councils have agreed a pilot scheme under which the entire United...
(Photograph) - Peace dividend: a solar-powered miniature radio transmitter is mounted on the back of a stork as part of a joint Israeli-German research project. Transmissions are monitored by...
Royal Holloway College academics have defended their research on controversial "key escrow" systems which could be used by government agencies to monitor private phone calls, faxes and email. They...
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
The Humanities Research Board was established by the British Academy in April 1994 following the Government's decision not to set up a Humanities Research Council. This was done with the support of...