Mature approach to quality ranking
Quality watchdogs are to rank universities and colleges according to their "maturity" to determine which can be trusted to monitor themselves. The plan emerged following the third meeting last week...
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Funding cuts bite
Cuts in staff, building programmes and essential equipment will inevitably follow grant reductions announced by the English higher education funding council last week, universities have warned....
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Marvellous architecture
A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England on Compact Disc, Compiled by Michael Good, Oxford University Press (+44 1865 56767), Pounds 295 + VAT ISBN 019 2682210, Windows CD The series of books...
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Software founders in postmodern age
Software has become too complex and even accidentally killed people. The way ahead is to produce simpler, user-friendly technology, argues Patrick Hall. I have practised as a software engineer for...
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Increased deposits on the next century
Sir Anthony Kenny defends the British Library's radical proposals to protect the integrity of the national archive by including non-print material. It is the duty of the British Library to maintain...
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Welcome to the year of living less dangerously
In the third of a series of articles on Internet law, Andrew Charlesworth looks at libel online. This could be the year in which defamation law in the England and Wales begins to catch up with...
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Stretch exercise in a dream world
Virtual reality has a future in helping victims of brain damage, Aisling Irwin reports. New to using an electric wheelchair, the patient crashes into walls, furniture, even passing people....
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Competition's bleeding edge
The benefits of information technologies are being distorted by crude market values that will damage academic culture, David Allen and Tom Wilson argue. We are told that the use of information...
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A few useful links
Michael Greenhalgh argues that fine art has a place on the Web but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing. Education is a development area for the Internet, for several reasons beyond those...
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Blurred division of the future
Daniel Greenstein looks at humanities computing in a digital age. Humanities scholarship was in the past characterised by solo endeavour. In the digital age, collaborative effort is fast becoming the...
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Pictures tell more than one story
Michael Greenhalgh argues that fine art has a place on the Web but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing. Less funding for more students has underlined the advantages of international and...
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Happy Herts
The University of Hertfordshire is to spend Pounds 300,000 on Genesis education management software from the MiSYS group. The first part of the installation, an admissions system, is expected to be...
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Web wins
World Wide Web inventors Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau have shared the ACM Software System Award 1995 with Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, creators of the Mosaic browser which powered the Web...
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Senate spins Web opening
French students and school-leavers are being invited to become the first users of the Senate's new World Wide Web site to voice opinion on the problems affecting undergraduate university courses. The...
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Engineers aim for 20 bn bits a second
Engineers at Glasgow University have won Pounds 1.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop the technology for a new generation of optic fibre communications....