Metaphor made real with an open mind
Catalonia has launched a virtual campus that emphasises a sense of belonging, Rebecca Warden reports. The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) a working example of the virtual campus, aiming to harness...
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Making links
Hypermedia links will be added automatically to scientific journals available over the World-Wide Web, in a new project supported by the funding bodies' Electronic Libraries programme. Links need not...
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Well connected
As venture capital prepares to risk upwards of Pounds 30 billion in developing the next stage of the telecommunications revolution, exhibitors prepare for the fourth "Integrated Communications"...
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Welsh target
Education is one of six areas highlighted in "M2, a multimedia experience", a conference at the BBC Wales Studios in Cardiff from November 29-30. Further details from Eleanor Hewett, project manager...
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Second sight
A set of interactive CD-Roms for the visually impaired has been created under the guidance of the Royal London Society for the Blind and the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind. Job Matters...
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Penal code
"Publicity is the very soul of justice" (Jeremy Bentham) runs the blurb announcing the arrival of The Penal Lexicon on the World-Wide Web. It aims to act as a focal point for penal matters on the...
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Conference call
Acorn Education will hold a conference on October at Wembley Conference Centre that will give an opportunity to teachers, trainers, parents and carers to discuss latest developments in uses of IT for...
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Apple Mach
Turn a modem-equipped Mac Classic into an Internet server for Pounds 180? It should be possible according to Shute Associates who are offering 50 per cent academic discounts on a Pounds 359 Macintosh...
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Eye opener
For people with a hunger for knowledge and either insomnia or a video recorder, BBC Further Education has launched The Learning Zone. The BBC2 channel now carries Open University and other...
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News breakers
The three-day Media Waves conference at the University of Brighton begins next Thursday, October 19. Speakers include former Live TV executive Janet Street-Porter. The conference spotlights the...
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Site seeing
The first Virtual Heritage conference (Assembly Rooms, Bath, 22 November 1995) will discuss the use of computer graphics to recreate buildings which no longer exist, including Cluny Abbey and the...
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PG tips
Postgraduates, often the forgotten members of the campus community, have an ally in the National Postgraduate Commission. Jamie Darwen returns this month to Nottingham University after a year at the...
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Higher wire
Boston College, which has links to the Jesuit order, has posted some useful Web pages on international higher education at http://www.bc.edu/bc org/avp/ soe/cihe/Center.html
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US veto deprives Scots of lucrative honour
Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor of St Andrews University's school of mathematical and computational sciences have won fame if not fortune for their pioneering computer software design work. They...
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Fellowships
SCRE The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education Department...