Brazilian greetings
The Anhembi Morumbi University is offering Internet users in education the chance to visit Brazil. Best contribution to its Web Christmas 95 site wins the trip. The address is: http://eu.ansp.br/...
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The Department for Education and Employment's school and college performance figures for 1995 are now available on the Internet from http://www.niss.ac.uk/dfee/ 16to18_95.htm. No league tables here:...
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Official line
Southampton University is hosting the New United Kingdom Official Publications Online at http://www.soton.ac.uk/nukop/index.html.. This is a searchable database of all the recent government and...
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Goggles on for 3D molecular marvel
Decrepit lecture rooms in the basement of Birkbeck College's crystallography department have been remodelled to create a computer cinema where students and researchers can study biological molecules...
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Visionary
(Photograph) - Visionary: Steve Mann. a researcher from the MIT Media Laboratory in the United States, transmits the world he sees on to the Internet and views his reality from a miniature TV screen...
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The digit as a rule of thumb
No longer content to take a back seat and lament the seeming demise of copyright in the electronic environment, creative organisations all over the world are rallying to protect a tradition that is...
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Appointments
LINK BOARD. Victor Parsons minister for science and technology at the Department of Trade and Industry, announced that David Smith, director of research and development at Whatman plc, has been...
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Chairs
CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Professorships have been awarded to: Celia Brackenridge, professor of sport and leisure; Mary Fuller; Paul Selman; Michael Winter; Lindsay...
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Events
GRADUATE EXHIBITION 1995. To celebrate the Textile Conservation Centre's 20th anniversary the first exhibition of graduate students' work at the Courtauld Institute of Art will be held until January...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND IN BIRMINGHAM. Research contracts Ian Oakes and Tim Burden in partnership with two research technology organisations, Pounds 264,367 from the Department of Trade and...
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Honorary degrees
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. Leslie Rodger, author, marketing expert and former chairman of the college's governing body; Lisbeth Hockey, former member of the governing body and an expert in...
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Fellowships
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND. Gordon Beveridge, vice chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast has been awarded an honorary fellowship. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING. John McCanny, professor...
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Colony opens women's rights centre
The first academic research centre promising to put feminist issues at the top of the political agenda has opened in Hong Kong's most prestigious university. At the inauguration of the Hong Kong...
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'Anarchists' on rampage
Several people were injured and property burned down or damaged from molotov cocktails thrown by a handful of "anarchists" and hooded "indignant citizens" during a university students' demonstration...
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Campus rabbis in sedition probe
Bar-Ilan University, one of whose law students murdered Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has set up a committee headed by a retired judge to investigate claims of extremism on campus. The...