Bristol hitches up to superhighway
Three universities in the south-west of England are to play a key role in an initiative that aims to make Bristol a world-beating "digital community". The project is being spearheaded by the South...
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Further Email
British Telecom is to link up Britain's 542 further education colleges to their own national email network from the start of next year. The initiative follows a successful six-month trial with 80...
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Netties' Gain
The Government has launched a pilot information service on the Internet. Initial contributors will be the Treasury, citizens charter unit, HMSO and the machinery of government division of the Office...
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Digital History
Southampton University and Research Publications are to work together to produce computer-based learning packages for A level and undergraduate study including Stalin and The Reform Impulse, England...
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Glittering prize up for grabs
In 1895 the Lumire brothers in France developed the Cinematographe camera-projector and in so doing helped to spawn an industry that has had a profound cultural, economic and industrial impact on the...
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Crystal-clear simulation
Our ability to model and explore complex three dimensional structures, from molecules to galaxies, has been revolutionised by new computer technology. This allows us to construct, display and...
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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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Squirrel nut
(Photograph) - Bleddyn Richards has just completed an MSc at the University of Glamorgan on the impact of grey squirrels on commercial forestry. The animals look pretty but breed ferociously,...
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Survival battle for herbal medicine
Herbalists are predicting European medicine regulations will spell the end for their practice -- just as what is hailed as the first herbal medicine degree in Britain started at Middlesex University...
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Huddersfield meets wanderer William
Sir William Taylor has been in his new job for less than a fortnight but like his predecessor at the helm of Huddersfield University, he is making waves. Unsuspecting staff enjoying a drink in the...
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AUT attack on contract abuse
Lecturers this week accused universities of breaking national agreements on the employment of contract staff. The Association of University Teachers' attack is based on a survey of contract...
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Ballot on Scots pay deal
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance this week, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally....