New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Welsh wizardry keeps chemists in touch
community pharmacists in Wales, and potentially anywhere in the world, will soon be able to keep in touch with the latest pharmaceutical advances using a handheld computer. The pioneering educational...
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Digital print and the pursuit of a perfect image
Guillem Ramos-Poqu! answers theorists who decry the use of computers as creative tools while ignoring the cultural crisis which threatens fine art. Digital art has now been established...
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Burn out warning at rebirth of the cool
In two years teaching science on the web, John Venables has watched students, and some faculty, conquer a difficult learning curve. Now, he says, it is time to ask how well those fancy web sites meet...
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The business world goes shopping
... but what it finds on the campus research web sites may often look like a limp lettuce. Paula Gomes and Janet Vaux report on moves to make innovative science and technology more compelling....
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Collaboration strategies take edge off high IT anxieties
Christina Preston reports on IT alliances between traditional teacher training institutions and schools. Information technology in education is on the electoral agenda. In January 1996 Gillian...
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Database solution controls global qualifications explosion
Job applicants and would-be students arrive waving certificates and trailing letters after their names. Employers and admissions tutors want to know what they are getting. Students want to be sure...
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Bleeding-edge web journal with wires attached
World Wide Web Journal Edited by Rohit Khare O'Reilly and Associates Published four times a year US $75.00; Canada and Mexico $81.00; Europe, Africa, Central and South America $105.00; Asia,...
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Farewell to the rule of thumb
Forget school league tables. A US-developed expert system will give a fuller picture of school performance says Carol Nahra. Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing an innovative...
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Slim platter with a WAD of information
World Academic Database Macmillan, +44 171 881 80; macdir@ macmillan.co.uk, in association with the International Association of Universities Pounds 225 +VAT ISBN 0333 664442 Dual use DOS/ Windows CD...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an artist who could be so self-effacing that he occasionally used a handkerchief to obscure the tools of his trade: "I, like many another boy, burst into the...
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Appointments
University of Sussex. Ben Martin, professor of science and technology policy studies, has been appointed director of the Science Policy Research Unit. Department for Education and Employment Tim...
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God's little helper
James Watson, the joint father of molecular biology, has just arrived in a UK that now boasts one famous cloned sheep. But, as he tells Kam Patel, the prospect of cloned humans saddens rather than...
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Is the tune-in a switch-off
Two weeks before the launch of Channel 5 Katrina Wishart asks five academics - Do we need a fifth terrestrial television channel and what do you think of the programmes it is offering? Channel 5's...
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Rememberer of loves past
Anthony Minghella tells Harriet Swain about his journey from Hull academic to Hollywood film-maker and discusses historians' charges that the hero of his new film The English Patient was a Nazi spy....