Supercomputer brings dollars for scholars
A new supercomputer installed at the University of Melbourne could bring the university millions of dollars in revenue. The university's new Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Centre (MARCC) will...
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Learning gains from airwave bonanza
A competition for new Canadian radio frequencies that requires commercial services to include a learning component seems to be putting out only a faint signal to the university sector. For years,...
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Snake's big break
An encryption algorithm developed by three academics is among five finalists in the US competition to select an encryption standard for the 21st century. Serpent, a 128-bit block cipher, was...
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Remember November
An entry form for the European Academic Software Award is now online at www.easa-award.net. The finals are not until November 2000 in the Hague, but the deadline for entries is a full year earlier on...
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Andrew Smith of University College London will recreate your house in 3D virtual reality if you send him a set of photographs. The offer is part of a year-long experiment in communal city-building in...
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Why I... think all first-year students should be vaccinated against meningitis
Emma Jones, now 23, suffered from meningitis during her first year at Durham University. I had meningitis before the first clusters of cases started happening at universities. Staff at Durham...
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No monkey business
As Kansas bans Darwin from its curriculum, Jonathan Weiner argues that science and religion are on the same spiritual quest. The Kansas board of education voted last Wednesday to strike evolution...
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Paying lip service is not enough
Single mothers should be first in line for the government's student hardship funds, says Louise Chalkley. The government's decision to review hardship loans and access funds comes not a moment too...
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Strikes leave admissions offices clearing on the day
Universities were this week playing down the impact of strikes by members of the Association of University Teachers that were threatening to disrupt clearing yesterday and today. "We are pretty laid-...
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A sad salary tale of two lecturers
The Bett committee report on pay and conditions found big salary variations in higher education. It proposed streamlining negotiations by reducing the ten negotiating groups to a single national...
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A piper who does not play the payers' tune
Phil Baty looks into claims that the Quality Assurance Agency is unaccountable and may not be providing the university sector with value for money. The question "who quality-assures the Quality...
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The politics in moves to raise standards
The QAA faces allegations of playing politics before serving the sector. Mike Fitzgerald, former vice-chancellor of the first "failing" university, Thames Valley University, said that he and TVU had...
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Mission statement
The agency's mission is to promote public confidence that the quality of provision and standard of awards in higher education are being safeguarded and enhanced. It will do this by: Working with...
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Rome
The Italian government has stripped La Sapienza University of control of the Rome Policlinico, Italy's biggest hospital and medical school. The move followed a succession of scandals. The university...
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Debt dampens spirit of protest
In our last survey of student life, Jennifer Currie hears how undergraduates have bowed to logic - choosing degrees that will get jobs to pay off loans. If students are no longer political animals,...