Tying a kangaroo down
British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE Readerships have been conferred on the following: Les Johnston, principal lecturer in criminology; Brian Mathews, lecturer in marketing; Gurdial Singh, principal lecturer in...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON Doctorates: Stanley Kalms, chairman, Dixons Group plc; John (Jock) Campbell, late chairman, Booker McConnell and Runnymede Trust; Sheila Rowbotham, author. Masters: Trevor...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN James Prosser, head of the department of molecular and cell biology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION The...
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Events
WEBER'S LEGACY A colloquium, "Max Weber - Culture - Politics", has been organised jointly by the German Historical Institute, University of London and London Guildhall University to take place on May...
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Chairs
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Barry Quinn, previously principal research scientist with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia and senior lecturer in statistics,...
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Appointments
CCETSW The following have been appointed to the ruling council of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work: Ziggi Alexander, director of corporate affairs, University College...
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Best defence
Christina Preston reports on a Chilean initiative to enrich and protect oral cultures through a multimedia network for teacher training in the country's poorest areas. The Mapuche Indian tribes in...
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Keys to the wired valley
Ealing has shed its defunct comedy heritage for ahigh-tech learning revolution, Simon Targett reports. Walk from South Ealing tube station and you pass a row of antique shops, a garage which has been...
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Hypertext misses the point of the Abbey habit
I was sorting some old papers recently and came across an article I had written 12 years ago. Reading through it, I immediately began editing: mentally red-marking and highlighting, changing the...
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World constituency for a politics of learning
David Hunt, minister for public service and science, was glad-handing at the Web Days. He helped connect the first five secondary schools in the United Kingdom to the web and then formally acted as...
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Tension on the threads of gold
Tim Greenhalgh reports on pains and passions which are beginning to surface through pressure from the astonishing growth of the World-Wide Web. Robert Cailliau, one of the World-Wide Web's two...
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Overt strategy for global learning
In its cover story on "Intellectual Capital" on October 3 last year, Fortune magazine argued that a major challenge facing corporations is how to figure out the worth of their collective knowledge...
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On the Open highway in search of serious money
Twenty-five years have passed since the Open University was given its charter and offered home-based higher education to the British public. The early image of long-haired lecturers on television...
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UN data on CD
A major United Nations database has been published on CD-Rom, making documents more accessible to analysts, politicians and scholars. Previously the complete United Nations Bibliographic Information...