More than 140 delegates from 21 Australian universities and 10 overseas countries arrived at the Southern Cross University earlier this month for what may have been the world's first international...
A tussle is looming over the future of the academic and research networks JANET and SuperJANET. As hopes of a consumer-driven "information superhighway" fade, eyes are turning to education and...
(Photograph) - Hands-on experience: the Science Museum launched the latest event in the Science in a Box series this month with an exhibition on the Information Superhighway, which runs until...
The Business Software Challenge to student code designers in the United Kingdom has been issued for the fifth time - but with a global perspective. This national design competition rewards students...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. Readers: Cyrus Cooper, scientific staff, MRC environmental epidemiology unit; Fausto Ianotti, senior lecturer, clinical neurological sciences; Paul Jackson, senior lecturer...
IMPERIAL COLLEGE Research grants: Dr D. Leak, Pounds 115,492 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (hetero- logous expression and generation of molecular hybrids of propene...
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Fellows: Fred Bullock; June Clark; Bartolomeu dos Santos; Ken Follett; John Garside; Philip Johnson-Laird; John Kenny; Bayo Kuku; John Lennard-Jones; Tom McNally; John...
CATALYST. Royal College of Arts graduates Gary Clarke and Gary Clough will show new work (see right) at Falmouth College of Arts Gallery, Woodlane, Falmouth, until May16 (10am-4pm). The mixture of...
COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS. The following have been appointed to the council: Chairman and chief executive: Paul Williams. Members: Julia Higgins, Imperial College,...
"A Whitehall farce", Labour's Alan Milburn called it. But the charge being pressed against Sir Godfrey Taylor, of the London Residuary Body, as he faced questioning on Tuesday over the sale of County...
Lionel Jospin may have carried the first ballot but Jacques Chirac remains the firm favourite in Sunday's French presidential election. So says Robert Elgie, lecturer in the department of European...
A "Sting" type experiment using psychology graduates to harass volunteers has shown that alcohol has no direct influence on aggression. Niall Coggins, senior lecturer in Strathclyde University's...
The absence of loving family relationships may be driving English teenagers to drink. A comparative study of family life and the drinking behaviour of 11 to 16-year-olds in three European countries...
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. Patricia Santinelli reports on the AUT's case for more pay. Higher education might be hit by a staff recruitment crisis because of the "...
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. David Charter outlines the NUS's assessment of student funding options. Returning student support to 1979 levels would cost at least Pounds 8....