Work study
The Department of Trade and Industry will pay half the cost of a Pounds 60,000 study at the University of Wales, Swansea which aims to support teleworkers. Web pages will provide information and...
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Thesis
With its growing Databank section, our Internet service may have the information you seek. Readers of this Libraries edition of Multimedia, for example, can find the most recent league table of...
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Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...
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In search of the perfect image
The ambitious US plan to build a universal digital library has already produced some useful spin-offs. We are two years into the four-year Digital Library Initiative, a $24 million research programme...
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Scots shoot up . . .
The number of full-time higher education students in Scotland rose to 142,722 in 1994/95, an increase of 8 per cent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Scottish Office Education...
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Disc world
Micro-reviews of 400 educational CD-Roms, mostly school-age titles, have been put on the Web at ncet.csv.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/projects/mpftp/software/software.html. Education departments, teacher...
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Brewer's group
While many former students feel their entire first year was spent in a brewery, for 1,000 starting at Leeds University this year it will be true. The former Kirkstall Brewery has been converted into...
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Reel time
The American Film Institute has relaunched its web site (www.afionline.org) with a new interface and new content including material about the AFI's newly acquired 1912 film Richard III, the oldest...
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A calling to arms
Debbie Raven reports on the struggle to match tne next stage of NVQs with professional needs. National Vocational Qualifications and their Scottish equivalents spark extreme reactions in the world of...
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Fees threat to asylum-seekers
Tough new rules on student asylum seekers could rob colleges of enrolments and thousands of pounds in cash. Admissions tutors are already worried about making up numbers this term because of changes...
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Research councils forced to pay higher overheads
Research councils look set to divert around Pounds 10 million a year from grants for new projects to meet official obligations to increase overhead payments for projects, writes Kam Patel. The Office...
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Sutherland diagnoses crisis of identity
Universities are suffering from a crisis of identity because they refuse to acknowledge diversity within the system, including divergences between their degrees, according to Sir Stewart Sutherland,...
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Firms ignore ideas on innovation
Small and medium-sized firms are not taking advantage of innovative ideas from universities, patents and trade fairs, according to a survey of 1,000 companies. The finding suggests that government...
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Students shift alliances in multiracial poll
A quiet revolution took place during South Africa's student representative council elections held on campuses over the past few weeks. Students shifted party allegiances, voted for bread and butter...
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No brass, no PFI
Simon Targett quotes John McWilliam of Greenwich University as saying that the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is talking nonsense when it says the Private Finance Initiative is not...