Plant fibres find a home in industry
Plant-based products could come out of the laboratory and into industry if a collaborative research project, part supported by the Government's Technology Foresight programme, is successful. The...
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Security agents harass strikers
Nigerian security agents are harassing lecturers and leaders of their banned union in an attempt to break a strike that closed the country's 38 universities. Assisi Assobie, national president of the...
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Middle age cash spread
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
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. . .while Welsh rocket
Enrolments in Welsh further education rose by 9.8 per cent over 1994/95 levels, the Further Education Funding Council for Wales 1995/96 annual report shows.
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Hot spot: Bardhabunga volcano
(Photograph) - Hot spot: Durham scientists hope to gather the best information ever on an eruption from a monitoring device placed two kilometres from Bardhabunga volcano just weeks before it erupted...
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Work study
The Department of Trade and Industry will pay half the cost of a Pounds 60,000 study at the University of Wales, Swansea which aims to support teleworkers. Web pages will provide information and...
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Thesis
With its growing Databank section, our Internet service may have the information you seek. Readers of this Libraries edition of Multimedia, for example, can find the most recent league table of...
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Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...
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In search of the perfect image
The ambitious US plan to build a universal digital library has already produced some useful spin-offs. We are two years into the four-year Digital Library Initiative, a $24 million research programme...
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Scots shoot up . . .
The number of full-time higher education students in Scotland rose to 142,722 in 1994/95, an increase of 8 per cent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Scottish Office Education...
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Disc world
Micro-reviews of 400 educational CD-Roms, mostly school-age titles, have been put on the Web at ncet.csv.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/projects/mpftp/software/software.html. Education departments, teacher...
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Brewer's group
While many former students feel their entire first year was spent in a brewery, for 1,000 starting at Leeds University this year it will be true. The former Kirkstall Brewery has been converted into...
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'Just war' or just war?
Ethics, Killing and War
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A divine package deal
God, Chance and Necessity
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Constructing the grammar of inner speech
Language, Thought and Consciousness