Who the **** do you think?
As the 'American century' closes, the nation is engaged in a new bout of self-questioning, writes Harvey Kaye Do Americans ask questions of themselves and their fellow citizens more than do other...
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Italy fears return to 'Years of lead'
Massimo D'Antona 51 law professor at Rome's La Sapienza University and key government adviser on labour relations, assassinated in a hit involving at least four people as he walked past the sociology...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jean Aitchison asked whether standards of English were falling among computer-literate students Penny Garrod Research Officer Electronic Information Systems Office The...
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How to ... Help stressed students cope
WHAT Nigel White suggests some techniques and strategies for university teachers faced with getting agitated and stressed students through vital exams WHY Many problem students need not be referred...
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Eye witness
Last week's murder of a key government adviser on labour relations at Rome's La Sapienza University was claimed by the Red Brigades, the most important of the left-wing terrorist organisations active...
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Coke or Pepsi? US universities choose their sponsor
American students about to graduate from secondary school face big choices at this time of year about the university they will attend: public or private, full-time or part-time, two-year or four-year...
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Third of campuses opt out of compulsory student union fees
Controversial legislation has led students in a third of New Zealand's universities and polytechnics to throw out compulsory membership of their student unions. Student union leaders, however, have...
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Caribbean v-c faces struggle for funds
A university jointly run by 14 English-speaking Caribbean countries has appointed to its top position a man who lists choreography as his profession. Recently inaugurated as vice-chancellor of the...
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Professor turns to crime writing
Workmen laying foundations for a school of postgraduate studies at Barcelona's Autonomous University unearth human remains. Meanwhile, Pepita Sanch!s, professor of Catalan cultural anthropology,...
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Serious play for Pounds 3.4m Euro learning project
The Institute of Education has joined a commercial and academic consortium in a Pounds 3.4 million European-funded project to develop a virtual playground for young children. IOE researchers are...
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Character-building bit by byte
Colorado provides the backdrop for the biggest experiment in 3D virtual education, Jon Marcus reports When David Monarchi was 14, he went to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and marvelled...
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Ethical challenge to the digital dark side
Computer technology is complex enough to change the way we think and act but the challenges it makes to the established order are rare. Artists who use computers to create more than numbers and words...
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Active Worlds
(Photograph) - Active Worlds (www.activeworlds.com) is one of the internet's most remarkable businesses, based on the notion that people would like to meet, chat (through their keyboards) and build...
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Online for Pounds 199
Thanks to a deal between Sega and BT, students who buy a Pounds 199 Dreamcast games console (pictured above) before they turn up at college for the new academic year will have free internet access...
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Walls have ears
Visitors to the Virtual Reality Software and Technology conference from December 20-22 at University College London will see CAVE, a VR room where the walls are screens and no headsets are required,...