THE potential delights and possible dangers of cyberspace are attracting the attention of Australia's most senior academics. Drawn by the prospect of using the Internet to teach courses more cheaply...
Accident and Design
Nineteen-ninety-seven has been a dramatic year. In May the new model Labour party swept to power in the general election with an even larger majority than expected. A surge of euphoria greeted its...
University of Oxford DCL: Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Martin Jacomb, chairman of the British Council; Peter Taylor, former Lord Chief Justice of England. DLitt:...
Oxford Dictionary of Economics
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
FREE RADICALS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS: ENVIRONMENT, DRUGS AND FOOD ADDITIVES.Edited by C. Rice-Evans, B. Halliwell and G. G. Lunt. Portland Press 6pp, Pounds 65.00. ISSN 0067 8694. FREE RADICALS IN...
University of Birmingham Research contracts (continued) Dr P. James-Roxby and Mr R. Chance, Pounds 60,620 from TCD and Pounds 19,500 from Thomas Walker Ltd. (introduction of ultrasonic and solar-...
Former Woman's Hour editor Sally Feldman tells Kam Patel why she is leaving journalism to become dean of the school of media at The London College of Printing. Sally Feldman laughs as she recalls her...
New Labour in Power - The British General Election of 1997 - From Blitz to Blair
Britain attracts more exchange students than it ever sends abroad. Anne Corbett argues for a more positive approach towards Europe when the country takes the Union presidency in January The 83,000...
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
Sophisticated Gulf War technology is finding its way on to the high streets of Britain as electronic surveillance moves into a new and sinister era driven by powerful commercial interests. At a...
TWO FACTORS will shape the future of the university in Britain: trends and political policy. Both major political parties agree that higher education must accord with economic circumstances. This...
Scientific enterprise has transformed life across the world in recent decades and is now doing so again. Research provides the knowledge base for information technology, biotechnology and the other...