Gary McCulloch on Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education . The books that have shaped my academic development in the field of the history of education have fallen into three camps: the...
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
A conference can make excellent raw material for a multimedia production - but do not let the cameras kill a living event, Peter Fowler warns. The idea of producing a CD-Rom floated to the surface at...
Imagine sitting at a computer terminal, punching in a secret code and seeing before you the coordinates of a variety of birds in their migratory flight between their European summer home and African...
Australia's open university is to offer an Australian business degree to students in Moscow who will undertake their studies via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen. The project is the result of...
Journalists in the United Kingdom will have much wider access to higher education through two free Internet services being launched by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. ExperNet is a...
Exposed The Museum of the History of Science has launched a World-Wide Web service which includes photographs from the 1840s and 1850s, among the 150 images for viewing at low and medium resolution.(...
Dispersed trainers are logging on to conferencing-based masters modules. Many institutions now run distance-learning courses. However, the Advanced Learning Technology programme offered by the Centre...
UNIVERSITY OF READING Readerships: John Abraham, reader in sociology; Jennifer Ames, reader in food chemistry; Grenville Astill, reader in archaeology; Leszek Frasinski, reader in atomic and...
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Research contracts Dr S Bond, Pounds 622,862 from Department of Health (organisation and delivery of direct patient care services): Professor J Burn, Pounds 74,869...
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Honorary fellowships Douglas Cullen, senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session; Norman Foster, director, Norman Foster & Partners; Robert...
DEBATE ON EUROPE A debate on "Making the European Union Work" led by Helmut Schmidt, Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Edward Heath, and chaired by John Ashworth will be held at the London School of...
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ARTS Deanna Petherbridge, an artist who writes on art, architecture and drawing, has been appointed professor of drawing from September 1995. Deanna Petherbridge has held sessional...
A shake-up in Europe's academic networking organisation has followed the resignation of its president and executive committee, writes Helena Flusfeder. Dissatisfaction among members with the way the...