Home alone and learning
John Davies meets a champion of high-tech education for the Third World. Lalita Rajasingham would seem well qualified to talk, as she does, about thinking globally and acting locally. Her parents...
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Scope for a second French revolution
Move over Disneyland, education has the news. Stella Hughes reports on the futurist ambitions of France's learning theme park. Over the past few years a site near Poitiers has been steadily...
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TLTP presents first fruits
A newly-published 252-page book details the first results to emerge from United Kingdom universities participating in a Pounds 75 million educational technology programme. The Teaching and Learning...
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Mouse mismatch
To pit the United Kingdom's micromouse racers against their colleagues from North America and the Pacific rim is like putting a church mouse up against its cousins from the flour mill. Though the...
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Waterloo International railway station
(Photograph) - The sinuous curve of Waterloo International railway station is one of the unexpected sights to be found in GeoInformation International's CD-Rom collection of high-resolution aerial...
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Crystal clear for chemists
Chemistry undergraduates at Heriot-Watt University are to use research-level computer software to improve their understanding of molecular shape and bonding. The CAChe quantum chemistry and molecular...
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London calling for European students
A London University teaching degree using computer conferencing on the Internet will be offered in Europe now that it has been proven by the first group of students completing the two-year course....
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Heriot-Watt hits D-I-Y maths winner
Heriot-Watt University has won a Pounds 30,000 Bank of Scotland award for an innovative computer-based project to help pupils improve their maths. The project, which has been running in three local...
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Game, dataset and match
Derek Law describes moves to make new database services available to academics. For some years users of Janet (Joint Academic Network) have been becoming familiar with a growing list of acronyms -...
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Wise up
The Institute of Physics believes young scientists lack business knowledge and awareness. With its 23 corporate affiliates the institute is spending Pounds 100,000 to develop an interactive CD-Rom...
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Labour plans to net IT riches in academe
A Labour government would rely on academic expertise in networking and multimedia, teamed with private sector and European Union finance, to build a national broad-band information network by 2005....
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, By the Way, started off as a banker: "The Empress turned on her side and closed her eyes with a contented little sigh. The moon beamed down upon her...
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Speaking Volumes: Productivity and Technical Change
Jonathan Mitchie on W. E. G. Salter's Productivity and Technical Change. How on earth do you pick the one book in your academic field which has meant the most to you? The books which have meant the...
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Corking profit for Freiburg vineyards
Degree certificates are not the only valuable items adorned by the crest of Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg this summer. It will also be on the labels of the university's first methode...
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Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird
(Photograph) - Flight of fancy: artist Andrew Fyvie launches Earth Bird, a scrap-metal sculpture made for a dance drama, Cry of the Earth, during Green Arts Week at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk,...