Klingons of the world unite
SPEAKING Klingon, the fictitious language used by the Star Trek characters of the same name, has become a growing worldwide activity, according to one Montreal linguist. First spoken by enemy...
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Melbourne bids for world top 10
TWO of Australia's biggest universities have formed a strategic alliance that has startled the higher education world and will be closely watched, and possibly copied, elsewhere. Melbourne and Monash...
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No monkey business in space
PRIME minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has promised Russia's space programme an extra $267 million in 1998 to retain "national prestige". He is also halving the number of space firms and banned the use...
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Swedish university shake-up
SWEDISH universities are braced for a management shakeup that will strengthen the government's grip on top posts in the new year. Legislation comes into force on January 1 that will alter the boards...
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Brain train to the north
THE ONE passenger train a day into Umea arrives at 7.30am, having taken more than 11 hours for the 885 km north from Stockholm. But this is no Swedish backwoods. More than 100,000 people live in "the...
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A diagnosis that demands more doctors
We all care about our health and need to be sure there will be enough doctors to serve us in the future. All evidence points to a growing imbalance between demand for doctors and the domestic supply...
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Best invest in secondary sector
Prime minister Tony Blair formally launched his promised Social Exclusion Unit this week. Down the road at the London School of Economics, Beveridge's successors are sharpening up their advice (page...
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Beware bullies in regional cloaks
In Scotland and Wales universities are to have regionalism in the form of local control over funding councils - whether they want it or not. In England, regional development authorities are on the...
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Microsoft researcher takes Edinburgh chair
Christopher Bishop, professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Aston University, has been appointed to a new chair in computer science at Edinburgh University, which he will hold in...
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Middlesbrough's Victorian town hall
(Photograph) - Middlesbrough's Victorian town hall is recreated in virtual reality at the University of Teesside, where a Pounds 930,000 grant from the European Regional Development Fund will help...
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Resilient book forces libraries to change access model
University library researchers will enter the new millennium acknowledging the endurance of the book. The "library without books" has been abandoned; the latest round of Electronic Libraries (eLib)...
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Centre wins Pounds 2.5m Euro funding
Saving manufacturers time and money by improving their design and production processes is the mission of the manufacturing engineering centre at the University of Wales, Cardiff. The centre, which...
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SuperJANET
SuperJANET pulls BT plug Cable and Wireless has pipped BT to the contract for SuperJANET III, the new high-capacity backbone which will interconnect academic metropolitan area networks (MANs) across...
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Industry shuns over-50s
Ageism may be aggravating the IT skills shortage. A survey of 100 of the UK's biggest companies, carried out on behalf of Connect Support Services, found that only 1 per cent of application software...
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Patients draw healing power from the online lifeline
Julia Hinde reports on a project which will make detailed medical research available to patients using the Web. Five-day-old Baebhen Schuttke received an urgently-needed liver transplant after her...