Diary 96
Cost-effective digital media, managing libraries in the digital age, library automation and sharing resources over networks are some of the themes of Computers In Libraries 96 from next February 20-...
Cost-effective digital media, managing libraries in the digital age, library automation and sharing resources over networks are some of the themes of Computers In Libraries 96 from next February 20-...
Book Industry Communication's Web site, now accessed at http://www.bic.org.uk/bic, is a useful resource which gives details of BIC projects with to access lists and hypertext links to United Kingdom...
A single Internet access point for comprehensive information on Europe's national libraries was launched last week. GABRIEL (GAteway and BRidge to Europe's national Libraries) is a pilot World-Wide...
Helena Flusfeder reports on Israel's expanding virtual OU classrooms. An experimental satellite system is enabling lecturers at Israel's Open University to teach distant classes simultaneously...
Jim Smith finds that the Net is no place to anchor references in serious academic studies. I came across some material on the Internet while researching United Nations peacekeeping some years ago...
Rapid changes are taking place in United States colleges and universities, including a greater emphasis on student learning and more use of computer technology, according to the annual survey of...
Prospective higher education students can now access essential information on more than 32,000 courses in the United Kingdom through a multimedia CD-Rom. StudyLink UK from Education MultiMedia...
The University of Kent has sold Internet provider EUnet GB to the American company Performance Systems International for Pounds 2.94 million in cash and stock. EUnet GB began in the 1980s as an...
Australia's universities have been forced to grapple with a dramatic new problem: how to set down standards for individual home pages on the World-Wide Web without infringing academic freedom. With...
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
Enrolments in Australian universities have jumped 20-fold from 31,000 students to 622,000 in 40 years. This is one of the astonishing changes in a set of higher education "time series tables"...
Science ministers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held decisive talks on internationalising science policy in Paris last week. Jo Ritzen, Netherlands minister of...