Jonathan Mitchie on W. E. G. Salter's Productivity and Technical Change. How on earth do you pick the one book in your academic field which has meant the most to you? The books which have meant the...
It's a wonderful life: Jane Prophet of Westminster University and Gordon Selley of the London Institute display one of the artificial life-forms that will struggle for survival in a simulated world...
Publisher John Libbey is one of the first to leap into the interdisciplinary area of new media technologies with a refereed academic journal. Convergence is edited by Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon...
Southampton Institute's MBA course, offered worldwide over the Internet , has won the Pounds 1,000 KPMG/Daily Echo Business Award recognising "innovation in a new product which has been commercially...
Six hundred and fifty Yorkshire university students have taken seven-week summer jobs creating an electronic database at Barnsley College, after newspaper advertisements drew 2,000 inquiries. The...
The Royal Society of Chemistry has established its own site on the World-Wide Web. Besides offering details of the society's information services and professional activities, it has links to the "...
The Numerical Algorithms Group is celebrating 25 years in mathematical software. Founded by Brian Ford and Steve Hague at Nottingham University, NAG moved to Oxford in 1973 and now has a staff of...
Electronic course banks to be established at seven universities could save students from skyrocketing textbook bills. Course packs will be printed on demand from electronic sources, with publishers...
Suffolk could have the country's first community televersity before the end of the decade, according to a report by management consultants Touche Ross. The new university, based around Suffolk...
The Higher Education Quality Council is to send proposals for a single system of academic quality assurance to the education and employment secretary, Gillian Shephard. The document argues: "Ultimate...
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Iain Vallence, chairman of British Telecommunications. DLitt: Vivienne Westwood, fashion and textile designer; Martin Kemp, British Academy Wolfson research professor at...
IMAGES OF INDIA. Images of India - an exhibition of photographs by Graham Brandon will be on show at The Commonwealth Institute's Bhownagree Gallery until August 6. The portraits of the people...
FURTHER AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A conference, "Research and Change in Further and Vocational Education", will be held at the University of Greenwich, July 19-21. For teachers, managers and those...
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY, David Ross, head of molecular and life sciences; Mike Swanston, reader in business studies. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Derek McAuley, lecturer at Cambridge University's computer...
SFHEA. Eric Smith has been appointed general secretary of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association to succeed Graham Alison. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Christopher Ellis, former acting...