Book bank
The Institution of Electrical Engineers, on London's Embankment, has housed a useful collection of computer books and journals since 1977 when the British Computer Society library was merged with the...
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Free competition
At Edinburgh University Bob McGonigle sportingly welcomed Microsoft's launch of its software for Web sites, the Internet Information Server, even though this is likely to damp down demand for...
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Tiptop condition
(Photograph) - Universities in Sweden, Canada, Austria and Finland are working with the European Physical Society to create a unified resource for physics on the Internet. The Internet Pilot to...
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Multimedia
Nottingham Trent University is among 11 institutions sharing Ecu 1.4 million (Pounds 1.12 million) to build a pan-European teacher training system using the World Wide Web. Teacher trainers and...
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Firms get real with imaging
Nottingham University is hoping to lead the United Kingdom in introducing business to advanced computer imaging techniques which can monitor crops, analyse coal, or plot the progress of slow brain...
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US colleges await Net decency verdict
It is Saturday night and solemn academic study has yielded to casual electronic conversation at the Harvard University computer centre. Students perched before the glowing rows of terminals, many...
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Glacier pioneers to use Net link
A group of young mountaineers will send scientific data and pictures to the Internet from their expedition in virgin Greenland terrain this summer. Expedition leader Richard Pash, a 22-year old...
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Cash-strapped council caps Cern costs
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has finally decided to cap its subscriptions to Cern, the particle smashing laboratory in Geneva. The decision, taken at a council meeting last...
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Set96
(Photograph) - Science to go: engineer Mike Rose and parasitologist Janet Spicer being biked about Glasgow to answer technical queries as part of the University of Glasgow contribution to 'Set96',...
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Thesis
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has been improved and extended with a new listing of research opportunities and a wealth of background reading for April's Tucson II conference on consciousness. As...
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Exams stop play as sport faces fixture fix
Much has been made on the sports pages of the prospect of the FA Cup's fifth round of the stretching into infinity as bad weather forces endless postponements. But the soccer authorities are not the...
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Devolved Scotland needs successor for SHEFC
A planning and funding buffer body should be responsible for higher education under a Scottish parliament, according to a paper from the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Delegates to...
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Correction
Professor Anthony Jones's salary as rector of the Royal College of Art was Pounds 78,720 exclusive of pension contributions (Pounds 13,391) in 1994/95, not Pounds 92,111 as stated in The THES of...
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Lab myth Scotched
The myth of the scientist as a boffin in a white coat is being dispelled by an open day on March 7 run by the 22 further education colleges and five higher education institutions in the West of...
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Leeding lights
A national employer forum based in Leeds brings together nearly 100 employers ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to companies like Guinness. The Employers for Higher Education group...