Disk trail to heritage
(Photograph) - The Coppermills tower in Walthamstow (right) and MK Electric's factory in the art deco style of the 1930s (far right) are among the unsuspected treasures of North London's Lea Valley....
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL: LLD: Miles Walker, chief minister of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man. MSc: Chris Boardman, cyclist and North-west ministerial adviser for sport and vice-president...
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Grants
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Research grants: Drs R. Harrison, P. Moore and Professor R. Weston, Pounds 578,709 from Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (integrated machine...
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Events
TORQUAY TO TOKYO: Transitions Dance Company, based at the Laban Centre, starts an international tour in late March with performances at Portsmouth College; the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton upon...
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Appointments
SHEFC: John (Jack) Shaw has been reappointed chairman of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for a further three years from June 1. SCONUL The Executive Board of the Standing Conference of...
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Unicef offers youth a voice
Students and young people have been using the Internet to send messages to the world leaders gathered in Copenhagen for the World Summit for Social Development. Unicef, the United Nations Children's...
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MM workshop
The THES is sponsoring a multimedia workshop at Mediacomm'95, the international conference on multimedia communications in Southampton on April 11-12. The workshop will be led by Joel Greenberg of...
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Scots step up a gear
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
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Talk show: Jacques Santer and Al Gore at G7 conference
(Photograph) - Talk show: Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission with Al Gore, United States vice president who opened the G7 conference on the information society in Brussels....
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The TLTP debate
Publicly-funded initiatives in education technology have enabled many university departments to explore interactive media for teaching and learning. But the Computers in Teaching Initiative and the...
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ROMping to the bank
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
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Search for a pharmacy set which works
David Mottram asks if there is a formula for computer-assisted learning in pharmacology that works for both student and teacher. Undergraduate pharmacy degree courses encompass a wide range of...
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Material case for mixed-up culture
Multimedia teaching techniques will only thrive if there is a radical change in the way courses are structured, Jonathan Darby argues. Anyone who has been observing the educational technology scene...
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Clockwork factories
Computing science is failing its students and drastic measures are needed to remedy the problem, Darrell Ince argues. Most of our computing departments should be closed down and their staff dispersed...
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Job web option to milk round
In a high-technology alternative to the traditional "milk-round", Coventry University is showcasing its students' skills on the World Wide Web. According to careers guidance officer David Bennett,...