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Nottingham Trent University is among 11 institutions sharing Ecu 1.4 million (Pounds 1.12 million) to build a pan-European teacher training system using the World Wide Web. Teacher trainers and...
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Firms get real with imaging
Nottingham University is hoping to lead the United Kingdom in introducing business to advanced computer imaging techniques which can monitor crops, analyse coal, or plot the progress of slow brain...
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US colleges await Net decency verdict
It is Saturday night and solemn academic study has yielded to casual electronic conversation at the Harvard University computer centre. Students perched before the glowing rows of terminals, many...
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Glacier pioneers to use Net link
A group of young mountaineers will send scientific data and pictures to the Internet from their expedition in virgin Greenland terrain this summer. Expedition leader Richard Pash, a 22-year old...
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Cash-strapped council caps Cern costs
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has finally decided to cap its subscriptions to Cern, the particle smashing laboratory in Geneva. The decision, taken at a council meeting last...
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Set96
(Photograph) - Science to go: engineer Mike Rose and parasitologist Janet Spicer being biked about Glasgow to answer technical queries as part of the University of Glasgow contribution to 'Set96',...
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Appointments
OXFORD UNIVERSITY. David Turton, honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, has been appointed director of the Refugee Studies Programme. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS Derek...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Research grants. Dr M. Silver and Professor A. Adams, Pounds 6,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (simulation of advanced strained-layer...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Honorary professorship: Edward Gregson, principal of the Royal Northern College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Honorary professorship in psychology: Richard Bell, senior...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND. Honorary doctorates have been awarded to: Liu Ding Yih (David Liu), head of the British Taiwan Cultural Institute, London; John Austin, bishop of Aston; Tim Brighouse,...
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Unions fear 100 job losses
Up to 100 lecturing and other posts could face the axe because the University of Westminster wants to build up its cash reserves, unions have claimed. Lecturers' union Natfhe be-lieves the university...
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Scottish investment
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is investing Pounds 200,000 in tackling the career concerns of contract research staff, writes Olga Wojtas, Scottish Editor. Juliet Cheetham, former...
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Contract staff win better conditions
Contract researchers are expected to win significant improvements in their working conditions in the next few weeks. Details of a framework for their career management are to be published following...
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Ready, steady, go
(Photograph) - Identical triplets Elizabeth, Helen and Sue Williams in training on their sports degree courses at Brunel University College could confuse competitors and officials alike at the...
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Axe poised over beauty spot college
Lancaster University may have to close Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside, Cumbria, in the face of Government funding cuts combined with an Ofsted report due in a few weeks which rates important...