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From today engineers have a new gateway to resources on the Internet. The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library is intended to solve one of the main problems facing Internet users - locating useful...
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Love's knowledge or puzzle principle
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION ON CD-ROM Editorial Board: Judith Hawley, Tom Keymer, John Mullan Chadwyck-Healey Pounds 2,750 +VAT ISBN 0 85964 323 9 Windows CD Once upon a time, there was a course...
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Hull promotes child tests
Computerised tests developed by a team at the University of Hull's psychology department could play an important part in Government plans to assess all five-year-olds in reading, writing and...
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Forum investigates limitless learning
A forum to advance technologies for distance learning, ranging from satellites to fibre optics, has been established in Israel. Shlomo Zach, chief scientist of the communications ministry, said that...
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Gonzo readings and 'in your face' rants
HIGH NOON ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER Edited by Peter Ludlow MIT Press 520pp, Pounds 42.50 ISBN 0 262 12196 4 (hbk) Pounds 19.95, ISBN 0 262 62103 7 (pbk) Well that old cowpoke Peter Ludlow has sure...
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Hot desks
The University of Central England has invested Pounds 1.5 million in an IBM asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network which will bring high quality (MPEG2) video and multimedia to 1,500 desktop...
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Invisible borders around the elite
Tony Durham reports from Singapore on the global scramble to develop and control forms of distance learning. No knowledge, no future: from shanty town to corporate headquarters this is understood....
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Unfamiliar terrain
THINK POSITIVE By Artec East London & the City Health Authority (+44 181 983 1141) Windows CD, Pounds 40 +VAT Think Positive is a novel and elaborate sex and health education package which...
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a French author concerned about the industrial revolution's power to derail human beings: "What did it matter what victims it crushed in its path! Was it not, after...
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Speaking Volumes: Philology and Literary History
Dovid Katz on Ber Borokhov's Philology and Literary History . When I was three, we moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Safad, Galilee, where my father, Yiddish poet Menke Katz, hoped the 16th-century...
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Pounds 55m for TECs
The Government has given English training and enterprise councils Pounds 55 million to tackle a wide range of of local business development and training needs. The private sector has pledged and...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Maritime campus
The University of Greenwich has been given permission for a new campus at the historic Royal Naval College site at Greenwich, sharing it with the National Maritime Museum. An independent trust will...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...