Students suffer technostress
Computers are supposed to be time-saving devices that make life easier and more convenient. But an American psychology professor contends that on about a quarter of university and college students...
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Leeds leads
An Edwardian listed building has been transformed into a Pounds 4.5 million high-tech library for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The Beckett Park Learning Centre housed within the campus's...
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Northern lights
University College Suffolk has linked with the most northerly campus in the world, Tromso in Norway, to develop research into distance education, particularly teacher training by email and...
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Better by design
Coventry University has won Pounds 30,000 funding from the Department for Education and Employment under its Discipline Network scheme to establish a national network in Information Design linking...
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De Montfort refashions Soviet satellites
University leaders in St Petersburg are working with a British university to improve the city's academic communications by using spare capacity on old Soviet military satellites. The Pounds 72,000...
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IT benefits 'may not save cash'
Information technology can enhance education but does not always save money, vice chancellors and other policy-makers will be told at a meeting in London on January 22. The decision-makers will hear...
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Leeds opens front line on unpublished texts
Education's grey literature is getting organised. Preprints and reports on education and training that have not yet appeared in printed journals, and perhaps never will, are to be collected and...
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Mechanical mistake
The THES December issue reported that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers are considering merging. It is the Institution...
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Dogs reservoir
Good news for collectors of the academic acronym with the creation of a new designation, that of Directors Of Graduate Study in the graduate school at Royal Holloway, University of London. No doubt...
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Evita overture
Nice try, but we do not expect the University of Wolverhampton to get much response from its invitation to Madonna and Jimmy Nail, stars of the film Evita, to enrol on their new degree course in...
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Students test Israeli smartcard
Bar-ilan University is the first testbed for a smartcard that Israel's national communication company Bezek hopes to introduce nationally. The smartcard, which looks like a credit card and contains a...
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Bibliographic software on a small budget
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Victorian splendour brought up-to-date
VICTORIAN DATABASE Compiled and edited by Brahma Chaudhuri, James Mulvihill and Fred Radford LITIRDatabase, c/o Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada. Email: litir@gpu.srv. ualberta.ca...
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Copyright, wrongs and bits between
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Higher and further education
Almost all British academics in higher and further education think students' work is being harmed by hardship, and amajority think that the standing of British higher education is lower than in 1980...