Rural Pounds 2.3m training boost
An advanced telematics programme for the delivery of learning, training and business information is about to begin in the far south west of England. Part-funded by Pounds 2.3 million from the...
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Hands-off computer makes links
The world's first hands-free computer, worn on the belt with a one-inch screen built into an eyeglass and responding to voice commands, will rely on software created at the University of Southampton...
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Balancing act
A free course that "teaches how to achieve balance by making sensory connections with nature" is now available through the World Wide Web. Michael Cohen directs Project Nature Connect, a...
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Firms keen on interactive media research
Businesses have flocked to support a London Business School research programme on the uncertain but potentially lucrative future of interactive media in the home. The programme will address two...
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Screen printing
(Photograph) - Screen printing: Alison Kilgour, editor of Ariadne, a new magazine covering Internet issues for librarians, with John MacColl, the managing editor and deputy librarian at the...
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THESIS
The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service. The THES Internet Service, THESIS, has been redesigned for 1996. Our Web pages now present a clean and consistent look while speeding you...
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Techno jobs fear in FE
All further education colleges should be linked to a national information highway, a report commissioned by the Further Education Funding Council recommended this week. The network proposed in the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. DLitt: William Clinton, president of the United States of America. Hon.degrees: Louis Blom-Cooper, appeal court judge; S. Poyntz, former bishop of Connor. UNIVERSITY OF...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. continued from last week Research grants Dr B. Kilbey, Pounds 1,551 from Medical Research Council (topoismerases of plasmodium falciparum) and Pounds 13,595 from MRC (...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Robert Tebb, vice-warden of Devonshire Hall, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Leeds College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Honorary fellowships have been conferred...
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Chairs
BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Nick Bingham, formerly at Royal Holloway College, has been appointed chair of the statistics department; Nicola Lacey, lecturer and fellow of law at New College, Oxford, has been...
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Leeds emeritus professor rejects CBE
A prominent academic has turned down a CBE because he says the honours system perpetuates inequality and is undemocratic. Gordon McGregor, emeritus professor of education at Leeds University, who...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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A science outshone by soaps
Nicholas Tucker surveys the crisis in academic psychology. Psychology as a field of academic study presents an ambiguous front. Take-up among undergraduates is growing. Places in A-level courses are...