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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...
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Companies offered ethics advice
A new centre at De Montfort University is offering to help companies check that they are developing their information systems in a socially responsible manner. Simon Rogerson, director of the Centre...
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Cybercafe goes for student link
Cyberia opened its second Internet cafe last week in the wake of a row with its former access provider, Pipex. The cafe now gets its Internet feed from BT and has plans for international expansion....
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Ex-BBC music man heads City research
City University has established a multimedia research group which will investigate the technology's potential in fields as varied as hospitals and the music business, writes Tony Durham. Its director...
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Bath starts 24-hour library
Work has started on a building project at the University of Bath which will provide students with a library that never closes, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The Student Learning Centre will add an extra 200...
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Electronic imaging CD-Rom developed
(Photograph) - Jeremy Gardiner and his students in the CyberArts programme at the University of Florida's New World School of the Arts have produced a CD-Rom that surveys developing trends in...