Exhibitions
IMAGES OF INDIA. Images of India - an exhibition of photographs by Graham Brandon will be on show at The Commonwealth Institute's Bhownagree Gallery until August 6. The portraits of the people...
IMAGES OF INDIA. Images of India - an exhibition of photographs by Graham Brandon will be on show at The Commonwealth Institute's Bhownagree Gallery until August 6. The portraits of the people...
FURTHER AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A conference, "Research and Change in Further and Vocational Education", will be held at the University of Greenwich, July 19-21. For teachers, managers and those...
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY, David Ross, head of molecular and life sciences; Mike Swanston, reader in business studies. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Derek McAuley, lecturer at Cambridge University's computer...
SFHEA. Eric Smith has been appointed general secretary of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association to succeed Graham Alison. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Christopher Ellis, former acting...
A radical metal jointing system which could halve the costs of building stadiums, public halls and hangars has completed its early development in Dundee University's department of civil engineering....
The soaring popularity of paragliding as a leisure pursuit and sport has prompted researchers to examine ways of making it safer. A growing number of people are taking to the skies with distinctive...
Bored with hi-fis and televisions in those uniform black casings? If a revolutionary invention by Warwick Manufacturing Group's Gordon Smith is taken up, hi-fi and television makers using plastic for...
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
Richard Poynder scours the Net for resources for the humanities and offers some good starting points. For those prepared to make the effort of seeking it out, there is a rich seam of material on the...
Bookshops have rows of computer books, usually very thick paperbacks with yellow spines. I do not know why yellow is so popular, but the books are thick because there's so much to learn about...
Stella Hughes reports on a Francophone project which aims to put African researchers on the World-Wide Web. For under-resourced, isolated researchers in Africa, the Internet holds the tantalising...
John Davies meets a champion of high-tech education for the Third World. Lalita Rajasingham would seem well qualified to talk, as she does, about thinking globally and acting locally. Her parents...
Move over Disneyland, education has the news. Stella Hughes reports on the futurist ambitions of France's learning theme park. Over the past few years a site near Poitiers has been steadily...
A newly-published 252-page book details the first results to emerge from United Kingdom universities participating in a Pounds 75 million educational technology programme. The Teaching and Learning...
To pit the United Kingdom's micromouse racers against their colleagues from North America and the Pacific rim is like putting a church mouse up against its cousins from the flour mill. Though the...