Academic freedom stifled by contracts
Academic freedom is yielding to commercial interests as companies hiring university researchers are drafting contracts that play in their favour, according to a recent analysis of research agreements...
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London trio joins Fathom
London's three museums in South Kensington - the Natural History, the Science and the Victoria and Albert - are to join Fathom, an online provider of lectures, seminars and performances. Fathom was...
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The London School of Economics
* The London School of Economics this week launched its first MBA programme, in collaboration with the New York Stern School of Business and graduate business school HEC Paris. Anthony Giddens,...
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Recreating any port in a storm
The United Kingdom's first full field-of-view ship simulator was unveiled on Wednesday by Liverpool John Moores University. The 360-degree simulator and IT suite is housed in a purpose-built centre...
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Primitive laboratory
Claims that James Neel injected Amazonians with a lethal vaccine highlight a struggle still facing anthropology, argues Tim Ingold The discipline of anthropology is heading for a nasty bout of naming...
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Man plus technology equals art at computing symposium
High-tech performance artist Stelarc was one of the presenters at an international handheld and mobile computing symposium hosted by Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol this week. Using the web, video...
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Questia prepares world-class online research library
More than 250,000 books and journals will be available online for university students within three years if an ambitious digitisation project goes to plan. The service from Texas-based Questia will...
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Centre sets sights on tycoons of future
The Southampton Institute's business school has used government funding to regroup its small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship work into a new centre to act as a focus for small...
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Chemistry net
An internet exhibition of undergraduate chemistry projects is celebrating the best student chemical web work from the United States and the Netherlands at an awards ceremony in London today. The...
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Flash flood
Macromedia is to extend its core web publishing products for the simple creation of online learning content. By building on web standards such as Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver, the company will...
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Archive swells
Elsevier Science is to enlarge its electronic archive of science and medical journals, which currently extends back to 1995. It will provide its full-text online customers with a permanent electronic...
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Material witness
Three undergraduates from Goldsmiths College who designed scientific educational websites as part of their education degree reached the final five in the National Museum of Science and Industry STEM...
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Melbourne gold
A data technology program developed by the University of Melbourne has been adopted by London's Imperial College to manage multiple campus archiving and record-keeping. The college's new Records...
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Ingenta, the global research gateway, has appointed Andrea Keyhani and Mark Kendall to develop library services. Ms Keyhani, vice-president for global library services, was heavily involved in the...
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Bridging cultural space big enough to test Nasa
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...