24-hour Boots
Work has begun on Nottingham Trent University's Pounds 13 million Boots electronic library. Besides four library floors, the wedge-shaped 7000-square metre building will have a 368-seat lecture...
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Perfectly formed
Worcester College of Technology has invested a Pounds 239,000 Government grant in a computer-integrated manufacturing system from the Yorkshire firm Denford. It includes robots, an automated guided...
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Net monthly
The Danish publisher Munksgaard has launched its first peer reviewed electronic journal. Appearing on the first Monday of every month, First Monday will publish articles on the Internet and the...
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Reasons to be fearful
"The first three minutes of your life are the most dangerous." In different handwriting: "The last three can be pretty dodgy too." This example of campus-toilet wit is not so funny when applied to...
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Motor math
A Loughborough University project to develop computer based teaching material has been awarded Pounds 8,600 by the Esso Higher Education Support Scheme. Led by Steve Rothberg of the university's...
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TLTP maps new terrain
Two million years flash past in a few seconds. Wind and rain wear away a Rwandan mountain top and clothe the lower slopes with soil. Animated graphics give a rapid intuition of the processes at work...
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Vampires put student Net access at stake
It is spring, and morning breezes stir the budding flowers on university and college campuses in the United States. A few weary students also emerge with the dawn. Administrators call them "Internet...
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Computers take elocution lessons
A research team from the University of Nottingham is developing a speech synthesiser that should give computers personalised voices. Mervyn Curtis, a lecturer in the department of electrical and...
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Fender outlines plans for extra students
Universities and colleges would be able to bid for extra students by promoting their most valuable features under proposals being prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A peer...
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Rwandan raid on Uganda
Makerere University in Uganda has become a fertile recruiting ground for the Rwanda government, whose National University of Rwanda was virtually destroyed by ethnic violence in 1994. The National...
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Georgia on her mind
(Photograph) - Paula Radcliffe, aged 22, a student at Loughborough University, runs her way to the Olympic Games in Atlanta this summer. She hopes to represent Great Britain in the 5,000 metres if...
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Quality rap for institute
Southampton Institute's extensive links with overseas colleges are criticised in an audit report from the Higher Education Quality Council due to be published next month. This comes at a time when...
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Vocational value fails to impress
Government efforts to raise the status and value of post-16 vocational qualifications have failed, a report published this week concludes. It says the gap between the aspirations of school-leavers...
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Birds worth two in the bush
The ornithological community has been divided by a proposal for a new definition of species which could double the number of bird species in the world to 20,000. Some specialists are predicting that...
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College fails
Lancaster University's department of teaching and education at Charlotte Mason College. Ambleside, was criticised by OFSTED this week. Its report said the quality of training for the teaching of...