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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from comparatively literate polymath: "Then a group leader leapt from the ranks and performed a kind of violent, intricate dance. He was acting out in pantomime the...
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Puttnam calls for bold IT strategy
The education business may soon offer commercial opportunities that dwarf those of the entertainment industry, Sir David Puttnam believes. Multimedia producers in the United Kingdom have in their...
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Brazilian greetings
The Anhembi Morumbi University is offering Internet users in education the chance to visit Brazil. Best contribution to its Web Christmas 95 site wins the trip. The address is: http://eu.ansp.br/...
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Net results
The Department for Education and Employment's school and college performance figures for 1995 are now available on the Internet from http://www.niss.ac.uk/dfee/ 16to18_95.htm. No league tables here:...
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Official line
Southampton University is hosting the New United Kingdom Official Publications Online at http://www.soton.ac.uk/nukop/index.html.. This is a searchable database of all the recent government and...
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Goggles on for 3D molecular marvel
Decrepit lecture rooms in the basement of Birkbeck College's crystallography department have been remodelled to create a computer cinema where students and researchers can study biological molecules...
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Visionary
(Photograph) - Visionary: Steve Mann. a researcher from the MIT Media Laboratory in the United States, transmits the world he sees on to the Internet and views his reality from a miniature TV screen...
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The digit as a rule of thumb
No longer content to take a back seat and lament the seeming demise of copyright in the electronic environment, creative organisations all over the world are rallying to protect a tradition that is...
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Appointments
LINK BOARD. Victor Parsons minister for science and technology at the Department of Trade and Industry, announced that David Smith, director of research and development at Whatman plc, has been...
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Chairs
CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Professorships have been awarded to: Celia Brackenridge, professor of sport and leisure; Mary Fuller; Paul Selman; Michael Winter; Lindsay...
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Events
GRADUATE EXHIBITION 1995. To celebrate the Textile Conservation Centre's 20th anniversary the first exhibition of graduate students' work at the Courtauld Institute of Art will be held until January...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND IN BIRMINGHAM. Research contracts Ian Oakes and Tim Burden in partnership with two research technology organisations, Pounds 264,367 from the Department of Trade and...
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Honorary degrees
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. Leslie Rodger, author, marketing expert and former chairman of the college's governing body; Lisbeth Hockey, former member of the governing body and an expert in...
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Fellowships
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND. Gordon Beveridge, vice chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast has been awarded an honorary fellowship. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING. John McCanny, professor...