California accent at the RCA
Interval Research of Palo Alto, California has helped the Royal College of Art to build a new studio where postgraduate student designers will use computer technology to make life easier. The company...
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Email, faxes on the move
British Telecom has teamed up with Apple Computer to provide a complete mobile data solution aimed at academics and commerce. Until now it has been impossible to buy an off-the-shelf solution to...
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BAe finds space for staff open learning
British Aerospace has opened the last of five open learning centres that it has established at its military aircraft manufacturing sites during the past 18 months. Open learning, which is intended to...
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Students win 3-D software bonus
Autodesk is to introduce cut-price student editions of its software in the United Kingdom following the success of a similar scheme in the United States. The scheme will be available to students and...
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Labour dash for highway revolution
The Labour Party has put its parliamentary weight behind the development of broad band networks in the United Kingdom. Next week, the Policy Forum on Information Superhighways will hold a press...
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IT industry selling short
The United Kingdom software and computing services industry places too much emphasis on immediate selling at the expense of crucial long-term marketing, a report from City University warns. The study...
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Natfhe and colleges hit pay talks difficulties
The first national talks for nearly five months in the dispute over new contracts for further education lecturers were said to be "heavy going" Arbitration was raised as a possible way out of...
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Bare cheeks raise PC hackles
Adam and Eve have been banished from a Southampton University seminar room after falling foul of faculty objections to their "inappropriate" nudity. The non-PC pair feature in one of three paintings...
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Michael Heindorff
(Photograph) - To accompany an exhibition of 72 of his drawings last month Michael Heindorff (above), senior tutor in painting at the Royal College of Art, produced an interactive catalogue on CD-Rom...
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Universities aim for Pounds 100m
Eighteen universities are planning to give the go-ahead later this month to a bond scheme which could raise Pounds 100 million for capital development and further expansion. The scheme is being...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Readerships: John Hunter, senior lecturer, has been appointed reader in the department of archaeological sciences; John Weiss, senior lecturer, has been appointed reader in the...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER continued from last week. Research grants Drs C. Whitelam and W. Cockburn, Pounds 185,844 from the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (antibody engineering...
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Events
OPTIK. The OPTIK project is a collaborative research project in dance/theatre performance involving musicians, dancers, actors and even video makers. The work tries to extend the boundaries of...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Ewan McKendrick, fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, and Linnells lecturer in law, has been appointed to the chair of English law from September. UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER...
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Swinging star
(Photograph) - Swinging star: Alison Bailay and Jeremy Killick of OPTIK in performance. Showing at Sadlers Wells the project aims to widen the boundaries of what to expect in theatricals.