Awards
THE BRITISH ACADEMY. Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies - Professor A. van der Woude. Derek Allen Prize (in Musicology) - P. Holman. Grahame Clark Medal - Dr J. Coles. Kenyon Medal for Classical...
THE BRITISH ACADEMY. Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies - Professor A. van der Woude. Derek Allen Prize (in Musicology) - P. Holman. Grahame Clark Medal - Dr J. Coles. Kenyon Medal for Classical...
Chris Hutchison reports from Montpellier on a bold attempt to bring together disparate disciplines at the cutting edge of high technology Forget the Festival de Cannes - it was computer scientists...
Edinburgh University's data library has won Pounds 1 million to back its status as the latest United Kingdom National Dataset Centre on the Internet. The designation from the Joint Information...
Simon Jenkins argues that the printed word has little to fear from the Net One of the most common questions put to people in my profession is why is the media so obsessed with grimness? Why is our...
Acorn is offering interest-free credit on its computer range. The move comes after the appointment of David Lee as managing director to succeed Sam Wauchope and the alliance with Microsoft as a "...
Internet Resources is a Web newsletter from Heriot-Watt University library which points to higher education resources from www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/ irn.html.
A new multilingual Internet browser which includes Arabic, VOL 1.0, is available free from www.vol.it/VOLB.browser.html.
Beyond the telephone, the television and the PC is a consultative document issued by the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) which seeks views on the "new information age just beginning". Copies...
Internauts can use the Web to follow a commercial space mission due to be launched this month. The University of Houston's Wake Shield Facility will be carried into orbit by the Endeavour space...
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 2.4 million computer-centred programme in cognitive engineering this autumn. Details: Anne Anderson; tel, 0141 339 8855, ext 5033. Email:...
The phallic function of language also cannot be forgotten. Some chance. Whatever else changes in academic life, the propensity of students to devise disconcertingly sexual imagery in response to the...
(Photograph) - Celebrity stare: Alexei Sayle, one of the judges in the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition for schools, colleges and universities earlier...
Many colleges will be dismayed to learn this week that the Government is committed to another round of performance league tables and has set out arrangements for collecting data for this year, writes...
The quality of training has improved dramatically since the launch of the Government's Investors in People initiative, according to a report by the Sussex-based Institute for Employment Studies. The...
As sweltering graduation ceremonies come to their sweaty end across sun-baked Britain, Antithesis hopes to highlight those heart-warming Alumni To Be Proud Of in forthcoming weeks. Case in point...