CD-Rom guide reopens row on drop out rates
A CD-Rom version of the controversial universities guide, PUSH has been launched this week. "PUSH CD (The Multimedia Student Guide to UK Universities)" uses a similar database to the printed PUSH...
Search
-
-
Open road to OMI sweet home
Julian Newman looks at the new face of European research and finds hope for the future direction of funding The European Union has recently launched its fourth Framework programme for Research and...
-
Task force zeroes in on profit pursuers
Bernard Donovan looks to the US for some pointers to the impending crisis looming over publishing rights in the electronic age Copyright is a serious matter these days, and, with copyright coming...
-
Laptop addicts log on to best ideas
Academic chief executives in the US are discovering the benefits of email Rather than picking up the telephone or writing a memo, Robert Glidden, president of Ohio University, swivels his chair...
-
Past lives on floppy disk
Mike Cosgrave celebrates new ways of accessing primary material for history's private eyes This year up to half the final-year history students at University College, Cork will take courses that...
-
Guide to The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
(Photograph) - You are not new to the Internet. We are. Academics have been using the Internet (and its predecessor, ARPANET) for a quarter of a century. Newspapers ignored it until a year or two ago...
-
Auteurs of the superoute
France's Mediterranean science park wants to become Europe's 'media lab' but first it needs fast lines to the rest of the Continent. Stella Hughes reports Carrying out a word search is one of those...
-
Chemists surf to active sights
Scientists can rapidly develop chemical modelling on the Internet. Henry Rzepa and Benjamin Whitaker explain Scientists and mathematicians have extended the written language by developing special...
-
Wizard way to objects
Object-oriented technology, considered by its supporters to be the best way to model reality and build software, was the subject of a one-hour conference on the Internet last week. The event was...
-
Gold standard
Crick computing was presented with the Gold (Special Needs) prize by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, at the BETT exhibition at Olympia, London on Wednesday for its literacy...
-
Business call
A team of language and technology experts from the universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Keele is at an advanced stage in the development of interactive modules for business German on CD-Rom. Each...
-
No matter where I Rom
The eleventh edition of the CD-Rom Directory is an international guide to all CD-Rom and multimedia CD titles published in the world. It also lists all companies involved in the industry, with full...
-
Government goes online with G-Net
Internet access to all Government departments will be possible soon thanks to a collaboration between the academic network operator, Ukerna, and Whitehall information systems specialists. Announcing...
-
Designer drugs
The protein group in the department of chemistry at York University has been working for the past year on a virtual reality pilot project for modelling the molecular structure of drugs. Rod Hubbard,...
-
New terrain
(Photograph) - The geography of the United Kingdom has been mapped out in multimedia on CD-Rom by Peterborough company, Photoair. "The Physical Landscape of Britain" is a fully interactive package...