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Al Gore, United States vice president, will give the keynote address at the G7 ministerial conference on information technologies in Brussels from February 24-26. The conference will look at ways of...
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Virtual lab for robotics goes on net
A project just launched at the University of Reading will open the door of a virtual laboratory for robotics students from universities and business around the world. Netrolab will give access to the...
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Bed tracker follows patient
A five year collaboration between higher education and a small Somerset software company has led to a new system for keeping track of hospital patients and ensuring that beds are full. Tim King,...
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Test on market value
Marketing students at higher education institutions across the United Kingdom started the new term as guinea pigs for the University of Central Lancashire's first commercial venture in multimedia....
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California accent at the RCA
Interval Research of Palo Alto, California has helped the Royal College of Art to build a new studio where postgraduate student designers will use computer technology to make life easier. The company...
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Email, faxes on the move
British Telecom has teamed up with Apple Computer to provide a complete mobile data solution aimed at academics and commerce. Until now it has been impossible to buy an off-the-shelf solution to...
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BAe finds space for staff open learning
British Aerospace has opened the last of five open learning centres that it has established at its military aircraft manufacturing sites during the past 18 months. Open learning, which is intended to...
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Students win 3-D software bonus
Autodesk is to introduce cut-price student editions of its software in the United Kingdom following the success of a similar scheme in the United States. The scheme will be available to students and...
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Labour dash for highway revolution
The Labour Party has put its parliamentary weight behind the development of broad band networks in the United Kingdom. Next week, the Policy Forum on Information Superhighways will hold a press...
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IT industry selling short
The United Kingdom software and computing services industry places too much emphasis on immediate selling at the expense of crucial long-term marketing, a report from City University warns. The study...
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Natfhe and colleges hit pay talks difficulties
The first national talks for nearly five months in the dispute over new contracts for further education lecturers were said to be "heavy going" Arbitration was raised as a possible way out of...
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Bare cheeks raise PC hackles
Adam and Eve have been banished from a Southampton University seminar room after falling foul of faculty objections to their "inappropriate" nudity. The non-PC pair feature in one of three paintings...
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Michael Heindorff
(Photograph) - To accompany an exhibition of 72 of his drawings last month Michael Heindorff (above), senior tutor in painting at the Royal College of Art, produced an interactive catalogue on CD-Rom...
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Universities aim for Pounds 100m
Eighteen universities are planning to give the go-ahead later this month to a bond scheme which could raise Pounds 100 million for capital development and further expansion. The scheme is being...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Readerships: John Hunter, senior lecturer, has been appointed reader in the department of archaeological sciences; John Weiss, senior lecturer, has been appointed reader in the...