Firms keen on interactive media research
Businesses have flocked to support a London Business School research programme on the uncertain but potentially lucrative future of interactive media in the home. The programme will address two...
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Screen printing
(Photograph) - Screen printing: Alison Kilgour, editor of Ariadne, a new magazine covering Internet issues for librarians, with John MacColl, the managing editor and deputy librarian at the...
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THESIS
The ߣߣÊÓƵ Supplement Internet Service. The THES Internet Service, THESIS, has been redesigned for 1996. Our Web pages now present a clean and consistent look while speeding you...
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Techno jobs fear in FE
All further education colleges should be linked to a national information highway, a report commissioned by the Further Education Funding Council recommended this week. The network proposed in the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. DLitt: William Clinton, president of the United States of America. Hon.degrees: Louis Blom-Cooper, appeal court judge; S. Poyntz, former bishop of Connor. UNIVERSITY OF...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. continued from last week Research grants Dr B. Kilbey, Pounds 1,551 from Medical Research Council (topoismerases of plasmodium falciparum) and Pounds 13,595 from MRC (...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Robert Tebb, vice-warden of Devonshire Hall, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Leeds College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Honorary fellowships have been conferred...
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Chairs
BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Nick Bingham, formerly at Royal Holloway College, has been appointed chair of the statistics department; Nicola Lacey, lecturer and fellow of law at New College, Oxford, has been...
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Leeds emeritus professor rejects CBE
A prominent academic has turned down a CBE because he says the honours system perpetuates inequality and is undemocratic. Gordon McGregor, emeritus professor of education at Leeds University, who...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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A science outshone by soaps
Nicholas Tucker surveys the crisis in academic psychology. Psychology as a field of academic study presents an ambiguous front. Take-up among undergraduates is growing. Places in A-level courses are...
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Open sesame to young minds
Maire Messenger Davies examines TV's effect on children. Just before Christmas there was a lively press debate about a vicar in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire who told his flock not to encourage their...
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The art of being black
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
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Dump it on the neighbours
Ragnar Lofstedt and Rae Zimmerman report on the rise of the environmental justice movement. North American academics have recently become extremely interested in a concept called "environmental...