Millennium blues
The world is set to end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary courses...
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Percentage games
Fresh evidence that the American sporting-academic complex never misses a fundraising trick. College sports fans desperate to find something to add to the mindboggling array of souvenirs on offer (...
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Family values
Alumnus to be proud of No: 168 has been described as the 23rd member of the Cabinet, or at least that is one of the more printable descriptions. Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's combined rottweiler...
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Wilson funding blast
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has accused academics of "schizophrenia" in their approach to government funding for higher education. Mr Wilson, addressing a Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Legal cost fears over complaints
INCREASED stress on student contracts will land universities with big legal bills, warn the authors of a law guide for institutions. Swansea Institute's acting principal David Warner, who compiled...
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Judge freezes next Net cash
Already delayed by funding problems, plans for a new high-speed network in the United States have been further complicated by a lawsuit that has frozen millions of dollars collected for the project....
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Pain is second nature to female of the species
Sociologists gathered in Edinburgh this week. Alison Utley reports. A SURVEY of patients at a GP's surgery in London revealed that both men and women believed women coped better with pain because it...
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Cambridge builds web-controlled campus TV
Students at Cambridge University are testing a networked multimedia project that eventually should deliver user-controllable live and recorded TV from around the world to PCs across city. The...
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Italian graduate database extends web to the world
Employers worldwide can take their pick of 30,000 recent graduates of 12 Italian universities by connecting to the AlmaLaurea website at the University of Bologna. Now the site's developers want to...
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Liverpool spin-off wins top accolade at multimedia awards
A multimedia spin-off firm from Liverpool John Moores University has won one of the United Kingdom's top design awards, Tim Greenhalgh writes. Amaze Limited received the "published training" honour...
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UCISA Web Awards
This year's UCISA Web Awards for academic websites were won by the universities of Plymouth and Bristol. Plymouth's entry supports a course on the biological bases of behaviour offered to first year...
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Ukerna picks up the phone
The academic networking company Ukerna may become a telecommunications operator in a bid to hold down the soaring cost of transatlantic Internet traffic. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Telecoms execs push plans to wire UK with broadband
Better training for teachers and doctors could be delivered by a broadband health and education network in the United Kingdom, according to a group of former BT executives who presented their plans...
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Faster, wider, deeper
Geoff McMullen (above) has taken over as chief executive of Ukerna, the company which operates JANET. Will the new broom make sweeping changes, Mike Holderness asks If you stand still, you die." We...
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Precisely the program to hack through jungle Net
Helena Flusfeder reports on an Israeli Web search engine that should finally allow users to pinpoint the information they need Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have...