Blackstone raises FE stakes
College governance will be made "open and fair" and lecturers will have to sit teacher training qualifications under the government's lifelong learning proposals to be set out later this month. In an...
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BBSRC to revamp food institute
The Institute of Food Research faces rationalisation following a research council probe which concludes that the institute's two-site structure has "compromised" key multidisciplinary research. The...
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Students bid to take over party
Students in Berlin are attempting a "hostile takeover" of a political party in a campaign to force through their demands for German higher education reform. More than 1,000 students have already...
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Label of love
Students at the Southampton Institute of Higher Education have set up their own record label, First Degree Records. They plan to release a 15-track limited edition CD in the spring that will feature...
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St Valentine's dark side
Love is ... often accompanied by a form of morbid romantic jealousy that is attracting the interest of psychiatrists. For such excessive emotion, known in psychiatry as the Othello syndrome, causes...
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V-cs go local to contain Net costs
ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice chancellors have put a price barrier on their gateway to the global Internet. Institutions will pay more to fetch a web page from overseas than they would pay to fetch the same page...
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Institute scientists open 3D worlds to whole Web
Virtue Ltd, a company started by computer scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, will be at next week's VRML98 show in Monterey, California showing how Web users with modest PCs...
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Teesside University to show a virtual reality representation of the sculpture, Angel of the North, at Tomorrow's World Live Event
Developers and researchers from the University of Teesside are showing a virtual reality representation of the controversial sculpture, Angel of the North, at the Tomorrow's World Live Event at the...
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Past masters
Erlangen University has put its unique collection of antiquities on the Web, in a project funded by the German research network DFN and the telecom company DeTeBerkom. It has become one of the most...
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Talking business
A consortium led by Stephen Hagen, dean of the school of languages and European studies at the University of Wolverhampton, has won Pounds 360,000 funding from the European Union to develop an...
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Open sesame
Open Computers and Finance, a principal UK provider of hardware and specialist software in education, is one of Britain's fastest growing companies, according to the Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100...
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In the Cannes
Student projects from the MA design for interactive media course in the Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University won five places, and were the only United Kingdom representatives in the New...
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Well connected
Media Vault Ltd, a recently established multimedia company , wholly owned by Halton College, has solved the problem of creating a high-speed network between its six sites and the college with a...
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Campus connects firms
Swansea University is encouraging the area's business community to embrace information technology by linking 450 small businesses to the Internet. The university is lead partner in a Pounds 4 million...
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Hush puppy
(Photograph) - In the University of Exeter library, drama student Victoria Heath tries out the latest voice technology. Students can dictate essays, surf the Internet without using a keyboard, or get...