Surf's up on media beach
There are lies, damned lies and great big whoppers about multimedia - ask Stephen Boyd Davies and Janet Street Porter. Mr Boyd Davies, principal lecturer at the centre for electronic arts at...
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Cabinet secrets out in CD-Rom format
In a dramatic extension of information technology for the scholar, a selection of the state papers released at the beginning of this year under the 30-year rule has been published on CD-Rom. This...
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Shortlisted
Other academic projects on the awards trail include the Microcosm hypermedia system and the WinEcon economics courseware package. Microcosm, developed at Southampton University and marketed by...
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Glittering prizes
Southampton Institute's MBA course delivered over the Internet has been shortlisted in the Towards the Superhighway Awards competition run by BT and the Sunday Times. The shortlist of six was chosen...
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Israel allowed first supercomputers
Israel is to purchase two American supercomputers for university research, following a change of policy by the United States government. The United States had barred export of supercomputers to...
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Liver links
(Photograph) - Liver links: Philip Love, vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool (right), and the city's lord mayor, Michael Black, were at Liverpool Town Hall for the launch of MerseyWorld,...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Ia McIlwaine, senior lecturer, has been awarded a readership in classification and indexing.
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Grants
ASTON UNIVERSITY Charities. Professor G. Harding and Dr S. Anderson, Pounds 65,009 from the Japanese Epilepsy Association (epilepsy and computer generated video display games). Research contracts....
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Events
DANCE OF MIDDLE WORLD Tim Shaw's sculptural project, his main focus since graduating in 1989, will be exhibited in a show called "The Dance of the Middle World", in Falmouth College of Art's Gallery...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Peter Ainsworth, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, has been appointed to a chair of French; Gehan Amaratunga, lecturer at the University of Cambridge, chair of...
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The Dance of the Middle World, a sculpture by Tim Shaw
(Photograph) - "The Dance of the Middle World", a sculpture by Tim Shaw, is on show at Falmouth College of Art
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF READING Sheila Corrall, director of Library and Information Services at Aston University, has been appointed librarian. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS The following will take office...
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Beggared belief
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. by Richard Hoggart. Chatto and Windus. 352pp, Pounds 18.00 - ISBN 0 7011 6501 4. The Uses of Literacy came out in 1957. In a far more beneficent and sunny climate for culture, it...
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Political potatoes too hot to handle
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...