Scope for a second French revolution
Move over Disneyland, education has the news. Stella Hughes reports on the futurist ambitions of France's learning theme park. Over the past few years a site near Poitiers has been steadily...
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TLTP presents first fruits
A newly-published 252-page book details the first results to emerge from United Kingdom universities participating in a Pounds 75 million educational technology programme. The Teaching and Learning...
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Mouse mismatch
To pit the United Kingdom's micromouse racers against their colleagues from North America and the Pacific rim is like putting a church mouse up against its cousins from the flour mill. Though the...
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Waterloo International railway station
(Photograph) - The sinuous curve of Waterloo International railway station is one of the unexpected sights to be found in GeoInformation International's CD-Rom collection of high-resolution aerial...
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Crystal clear for chemists
Chemistry undergraduates at Heriot-Watt University are to use research-level computer software to improve their understanding of molecular shape and bonding. The CAChe quantum chemistry and molecular...
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London calling for European students
A London University teaching degree using computer conferencing on the Internet will be offered in Europe now that it has been proven by the first group of students completing the two-year course....
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Heriot-Watt hits D-I-Y maths winner
Heriot-Watt University has won a Pounds 30,000 Bank of Scotland award for an innovative computer-based project to help pupils improve their maths. The project, which has been running in three local...
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Game, dataset and match
Derek Law describes moves to make new database services available to academics. For some years users of Janet (Joint Academic Network) have been becoming familiar with a growing list of acronyms -...
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Wise up
The Institute of Physics believes young scientists lack business knowledge and awareness. With its 23 corporate affiliates the institute is spending Pounds 100,000 to develop an interactive CD-Rom...
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Labour plans to net IT riches in academe
A Labour government would rely on academic expertise in networking and multimedia, teamed with private sector and European Union finance, to build a national broad-band information network by 2005....
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Corking profit for Freiburg vineyards
Degree certificates are not the only valuable items adorned by the crest of Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg this summer. It will also be on the labels of the university's first methode...
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Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird
(Photograph) - Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird, a scrap-metal sculpture made for a dance drama, Cry of the Earth, during Green Arts Week at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk,...
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PhDs in demand
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council is planning a 50 per cent increase in the number of PhD studentships it funds to meet demand from students, em-ployers, universities and industry....
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Opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building
(Photograph) - Round trip: architect Richard Brearley puts Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secretary, in the picture on the official opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building at the...
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Mobile phone blinds the stars
Mobile phones are posing a threat to astronomers' research into the Big Bang and the death of stars. The next generation of phones is to use a low-orbit satellite network which has several frequency...