Dream of a bureaucrat
Romuald Rudzki (THES letters, October 25) accepts David Albury's rosy picture of happy, self-employed scholars interfacing with their universities and colleges through a managed pseudo-market on the...
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Direct line to multimedia
THE MULTIMEDIA AND CD-ROM DIRECTORY 16TH EDITION TFPL Multimedia, +44 171 881 8000, Pounds 175 +VAT for two issues ISBN 0 333 670 345. Multiplatform DOS/Macintosh/ Windows CD Since most personal...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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Class of '96 colour the new worlds
Whether the CD-Rom and other interactive media are dead or merely resting depends largely on the quality of graduates who make them their career. Tim Greenhalgh followed a cohort through their final...
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Pleasure principle makes a career move
Technology will help lifelong learners to track their progress and tailor their studies says Morag Arnot. Lifelong learning through part-time study at the University of Paisley is a reality for more...
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Sony's lab looks for artistic mix
Japan's electronic giant Sony has sited a basic research laboratory in the Latin Quarter of Paris because it believes that "in the 21st century, scientific technologies need to co-exist with cultural...
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Relations with poor
Sir Ron may not be aware that some of us in have been working on council estates and in inner-city areas for many years. His appeal for units on "working-class estates" is timely, however, since many...
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Star billing for students
Students across Britain may soon be watching and even making their very own digital soap operas and short films following a pilot at the University of Greenwich. Programmes beamed by satellite direct...
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Lawyers reach pact over Bar School
The Commission for Racial Equality has called off an investigation into Bar School course results showing white students gaining more passes than their black peers. Plans to launch a formal inquiry...
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Fur flies in unholy row over dress code
Academics from Cambridge University's four theological colleges have succeeded in winning enthusiastic support from on high for a new vocational degree called the bachelor of theology for ministry....
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Answer in soil
Soil and water could be the source of new anti-cancer drugs, scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign have said. They have developed such drugs from compounds produced by common bacteria which...
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Help for disabled
FE colleges are being asked to comment on new regulations requiring them to publish information on facilities for the disabled to help them make informed choices. The Government launched a three-...
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Telescopic sight
(Photograph) - Gavin Dalton, a lecturer, adjusts the first new telescope in Oxford University for 30 years which is about to be installed in the former university observatory.
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Lecturer unions square up for new pay fight
Industrial action could sweep university and college campuses this year as funding cuts force lecturer redundancies and rule out pay rises. Lecturers' unions say they have little choice but to push...