Having left Oxford and gone to the US, academic Andrea Ashworth found herself overwhelmed by the past. She tells Harriet Swain how writing a chilling account of her violent childhood helped lay the...
Staff at Ulster University are resisting a move to clawback a day's leave in return for St Patrick's Day. Prior to the 1984 merger, the New University of Ulster took St Patrick's Day as a holiday,...
Overseas students coming to Scotland are to win complete access to National Health Service care following changes in NHS rules this month. Their case was taken up by Brian Potter, Scottish secretary...
Publishers and higher education representatives have acted to remove the legal uncertainties which surround the use of digitised books and journals in teaching and research. The Publishers...
A new web site for the Public Record Office (PRO), the national archives, will contain the beginnings of one of the largest online archive catalogues in the world. By the year 2001 it should contain...
Two new careers advice sites for students in the construction industry and the legal profession have been launched. The Construction Industry Training Board's site at www.citb.org.uk includes an...
Europe could have a network of several thousand "Cyber-cinemas" screening digital movies distributed by satellite in the next century. The cinemas could double as electronic town halls linking...
International online learning is to come under scrutiny at Oxford University following a $30, 000 grant received by the department of continuing education. The grant, from the Alfred P Sloan...
AUSTRALIA'S vice chancellors believe they have created a world first: their staff and students will soon be able to borrow library books from anywhere on the globe using a simple Internet interface....
(Photograph) - Altered states: Australian performance artist Stelarc at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex uses his third robot arm controlled by electrodes...
(Photograph) - THE latest marine technology was on display in Brighton this week as part of Oceanography International 98. Among the inventions exhibited is this box-corer designed to collect...
Roz Picard tells Tony Durham why the search for ways to give computers emotionality is not just navel-gazing Marvin the paranoid android had a brain as big as a planet and the lack of intelligent...
As maths becomes more an integral part of diverse courses, Lindsay Aitkenhead finds that software often does not add up Sheffield Hallam University, in common with other new universities, is widening...
A cost-effective formula for large-scale computation using the Internet is proving its worth, David Bradley reports When the announcement came four years ago that the University of London Computer...
Frank Booty reports on video conferencing projects that put students in control of advanced manufacturing technology More than 4,000 students in the United Kingdom are using videoconferencing and...