Pacific ocean link fails
An optic fibre cable that carries Australia's burgeoning Internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean failed for the first time last month - five kilometres below the surface of the sea and 2,000...
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Mirror on IT's missing half
"We have far too few information technology lecturers and far too few IT professors," says Dagenham MP Judith Church - and the "we" comprises more than half the world's population. Ms Church has...
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Wessex to sue over net 'slur' on conference
The Wessex Institute of Technology is planning to sue an Austrian university for alleged defamation on the Internet. The case will be the latest of a series of writs issued in the United Kingdom and...
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End of flat fee raises fears
From the end of this month, the "backbone" of the United States Internet will be privatised. A year ago, the Usenet discussion groups carried on the Internet were alive with speculation on the dire...
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Common thread ties together business and buyers
ITN newscaster Trevor McDonald and "education superhighway" advocate Karl Chapman will give public lectures at next week's Mediacomm 95 conference in Southampton, which also includes a multimedia...
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Goodbye to all that
(Photograph) - Goodbye to all that: Cern, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, has said farewell to its astonishingly successful World-Wide Web creation. The future of the Web will be...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from Perictione's boy: "This at any rate is my advice, that we should believe the soul to be immortal, capable of enduring all evil and all good, and always keep our feet...
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Speaking Volumes:Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Marie Conte-Helm on Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan . I was introduced to Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan as a postgraduate at the East West Center of the University of Hawaii. It...
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Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'
Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half the rate for school teachers since 1979. While the average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and...
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North Wales en route to Normal merger
Bangor University and the north Wales town's Normal College will merge on March 1, 1996. The new institution will cater for 6,700 students, and the changes will mean that two higher education...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...
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Industry chiefs call for greater say in Scotland
Industrialists want to play a greater part in Scotland's quality assessment system, according to the latest evaluation of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's scheme. Researchers at Moray...
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Three times lucky
(Photograph) - Three times lucky: Ian Springford, an architecture student at Edinburgh College of Art, has won first, second and third prizes in the graduates' section of the international 1995 OASYS...
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Bond bears private strings
The rush by universities to the door of the money markets, which began in earnest last week when Lancaster University became the first higher education institution to launch a bond scheme, could lead...
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NCVQ set for huge expansion by degrees
The Government quango charged with introducing a unified national vocational qualifications system - which would mean universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate NVQs and GNVQs - is set to...