Up to 10,000 academics to descend on Rome
The Vatican is offering the world's television networks an advertisement depicting a white dove taking off from a university lecture hall and winging its way to St Peter's basilica. The video...
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Net: domain of privileged
Government policies aimed at widening access to education through technology are failing -and universities are also missing the mark, because of poorly designed websites - according to research...
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I don't believe it
(Photograph) - Audrey White (right) won an award this week from the City Lit, where she has qualified as a professional aromatherapist after starting by selling aromatherapy oils from a market stall...
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USP defies distance with link-up
The University of the South Pacific has launched a multimillion-dollar communications project linking students in its 12 member states. USPNet2000 is probably unique because of the area it covers and...
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Teesside Waps ahead
The University of Teesside is harnessing wireless application protocol technology to widen access to information about its services. The university, one of a handful to gain an "excellent" teaching...
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Jobs fillip for Aberdeen
Aberdeen University is hoping to create between 50 and 60 jobs with Pounds 5 million in research funding from the European Union. The university has boosted its cache of EU grants by 50 per cent for...
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Give me a break
May I correct one or two details in your account of my impending leave in Cambridge (Diary, THES, May 19). I will not be taking a sabbatical, enjoyable as that might be, but adding some unused leave...
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Site in Tag's memory
The Open University science faculty has relaunched its website after growing demand from internet users. There are now links to all the OU's science sites, a summary of departmental research...
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Students on IT seesaw
The IT facilities and annual spend on information provision per full-time student vary dramatically between universities, according to statistics in The Student Book 2001. Cranfield has an annual...
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Info mechanics
A European Commission-funded consortium of learning institutions is launching a postgraduate degree to train specialists in the art and mechanics of information. FORM-AMI, whose members include...
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Tracing paper
Performance artist Stelarc (www.stelarc.va.com) will give the opening talk at "Incubation, the trAce" conference on writing and the internet from July 10-12 at Nottingham Trent University. Details:...
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Ink links to screen
A new application launched at this week's "Internet World" exhibition in London allows ink and audio from business presentations and education lectures to be broadcast over the internet. Handwritten...
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Puttnam sounds off
Lord Puttnam will be the key speaker at a conference on the role of audio in interactive media next Friday. "Sounding Off2" follows an event held at Bafta in November. The academy is running the...
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OU chief warns of internet hype
The heads of United Kingdom universities need to look up from their check-out tills and prepare for radical change by asking hard questions about their mission, values and purposes, according to Sir...
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Wanted - an angel flush with money
The path from scientist to entrepreneur rarely runs smooth, according to David Hall, director of the Thames Gateway Technology Centre at the University of East London's Docklands site. "A scientist...