Virtually built
University College London's new Virtual Reality Centre for the Built Environment has been opened, with the help of Pounds 2.5 milllion from the Government's Foresight initiative. UCL researchers have...
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Of UK domiciled ethnic minority undergraduates: * 25.7 per cent are Indian * 14.6 per cent are black African * 6.7 per cent are Chinese
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Training wanted
Postgraduate research students want mandatory training in research methods, a new study has found. Only half of PhD students are given research methods training, according to the survey conducted for...
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Ravensbourne hat-trick
Students at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication won first, second and runners-up prizes in the PROMAX UK awards last Friday for promotion and marketing in electronic media. Dave Stewart...
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HTML offshoot promises to deliver multimedia for the masses
A new and easy-to-use language that will merge television and the World Wide Web has been developed by an industrial-academic alliance. If adopted as a standard, it will enable high-quality...
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The builder's estimate that misses bricks and mortar
Dearing's figures for the expansion of networked desktop computers seem affordable but Lawrie Schonfelder finds neglected costs that will stretch budgets The Dearing report stresses the importance of...
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Library users queue for the kiosk mode
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise University of North London librarian...
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StrongARM speed captured on the television screen
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise Cambridge-based Acorn Computer...
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The 'follow-you' desktop takes shape virtually in Cambridge
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise A Cambridge research laboratory has...
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The Web's vibrant offspring
The Network Computer, derided by the big players last year, is being embraced as a robust alternative to the PC. Tony Durham and Tim Greenhalgh explore its rise The personal computer fostered the...
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Warrington's Pounds 2m transfer
Halton College students are set to enjoy multimedia education on a super-fast network, Nick Farrell reports Halton College principal Martin Jenkins has just spent Pounds 2 million building a network...
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Cinderellas arrive late at the ball
Brian Dyson appeals for longer-term funding of archive collections, until recently the poor relation in the library service, as they flower on the web Information technology buffs have a habit of...
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First chance for many, last chance for Earth
Tony Durham talks to the president of Commonweath of Learning, Gajaraj Dhanarajan (below) about the triumph of distance learning in Asia For a child whose school journey began with a two-mile pre-...
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The missing link in multimedia
The UK is failing to produce a generation of cross-disciplinary managers essential to avoid 'multi-mediocre' learning packages Terry Speake and James Powell argue The worldwide demand for advanced...
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The worldwide wealth of resources in miniature
BURKS 2. John English, University of Brighton. email: je@brighton.ac.uk Pounds 3.00 inc. VAT. Windows CD. Getting information quickly off the Net always seems to be a lost cause while at university,...