Uni vac
Six hundred and fifty Yorkshire university students have taken seven-week summer jobs creating an electronic database at Barnsley College, after newspaper advertisements drew 2,000 inquiries. The...
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Electro positive
The Royal Society of Chemistry has established its own site on the World-Wide Web. Besides offering details of the society's information services and professional activities, it has links to the "...
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Lucky number
The Numerical Algorithms Group is celebrating 25 years in mathematical software. Founded by Brian Ford and Steve Hague at Nottingham University, NAG moved to Oxford in 1973 and now has a staff of...
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Libraries compile electronic textbooks
Electronic course banks to be established at seven universities could save students from skyrocketing textbook bills. Course packs will be printed on demand from electronic sources, with publishers...
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Suffolk aims for televersity
Suffolk could have the country's first community televersity before the end of the decade, according to a report by management consultants Touche Ross. The new university, based around Suffolk...
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HEQC aims single agency salvo at Shephard
The Higher Education Quality Council is to send proposals for a single system of academic quality assurance to the education and employment secretary, Gillian Shephard. The document argues: "Ultimate...
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Honorary degrees
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Iain Vallence, chairman of British Telecommunications. DLitt: Vivienne Westwood, fashion and textile designer; Martin Kemp, British Academy Wolfson research professor at...
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Exhibitions
IMAGES OF INDIA. Images of India - an exhibition of photographs by Graham Brandon will be on show at The Commonwealth Institute's Bhownagree Gallery until August 6. The portraits of the people...
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Events
FURTHER AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A conference, "Research and Change in Further and Vocational Education", will be held at the University of Greenwich, July 19-21. For teachers, managers and those...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY, David Ross, head of molecular and life sciences; Mike Swanston, reader in business studies. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Derek McAuley, lecturer at Cambridge University's computer...
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Appointments
SFHEA. Eric Smith has been appointed general secretary of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association to succeed Graham Alison. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Christopher Ellis, former acting...
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Trussing saves the joint
A radical metal jointing system which could halve the costs of building stadiums, public halls and hangars has completed its early development in Dundee University's department of civil engineering....
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Safety experts know the ropes of paragliding
The soaring popularity of paragliding as a leisure pursuit and sport has prompted researchers to examine ways of making it safer. A growing number of people are taking to the skies with distinctive...
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Plastics get a splash of colour
Bored with hi-fis and televisions in those uniform black casings? If a revolutionary invention by Warwick Manufacturing Group's Gordon Smith is taken up, hi-fi and television makers using plastic for...
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Not just a lot of old Tosh
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...