Firms bypass new universities
Job vacancies for graduates in 1997 are up by almost a fifth over last year, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters. But employers' confusion about degree standards and comparability...
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Comparability of standards between degrees and institutions
A REGULATORY body to ensure comparability of standards between degrees and institutions should be established, the Institute of Directors has suggested. A survey of IoD members found that "there are...
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Race slur man shuns Oxford
A South-African academic who may face serious criminal charges arising from an alleged campaign of intimidation and violent demonstrations at a mixed-race university has pulled out of an Oxford...
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TV service tunes into clearing
A new service that aims to smooth the path to university for students using the clearing system has been launched on Teletext. It uses new technology which transforms Teletext from a one-way...
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Phase change
The long wait for Phase 3 of the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme is almost over. On July 25 the Higher Education Funding Council for England will hold a London briefing session on the new...
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Culture swap
Roy Ascott spent a week with four Brazilian artists deep in the Mato Grosso, showing the Kuikuru Indians the Internet and meeting their shamans, before returning via Brasilia where he supped mind-...
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Italy backs trilingual net degree
what began as a television company's project to promote Italian culture worldwide over the Internet has developed into an online university degree course. The Italica project launched by the Italian...
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Teesside Pounds 750,000 Sony deal
THE Japanese electronics giant Sony and the University of Teesside have signed a three-year research and development contract worth more than Pounds 750,000, writes Tony Durham. The Middlesbrough...
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Digital radio of the future
This is the digital radio of the future, according to Ben Bisek, Carsten Schweig and Mike Wong. Their design won the Pounds 750 first prize in a BBC competition for students at Ravensbourne College...
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Final bow for the culture of deference
Japan is taking overdue steps to provide its students with relevant IT skills, Michael Fitzpatrick reports Japan, as any Japanese education minister will tell you, has got it all wrong. Yes, Japan...
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Pictures bridge the gap
Bar-Ilan University in the Tel Aviv suburbs is using video conferencing in an attempt to bridge the gap in educational standards between central institutions and those on Israel's periphery. Baruch...
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Logging is out as West logs into learning at a distance
Tim Cornwell reports on how 13 US states aim to build 'the Virtual U' Bottoms on seats, says Governor Roy Romer contemptuously, is how the United States measures the education of its students: "Our...
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Internet lifelines for a continent
Wachira Kigotho reports on first steps in sub-Saharan Africa to develop a virtual university that will provide students with a springboard to the IT age Nairobi and Moi universities in Kenya are...
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Shapes and graces in an infinite space
Claire Neesham reports on experiments with dance that use 3-D software and video-conferencing over the Internet to explore new movement It is late evening in Vancouver and Susan Kozel, a foundation...
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Binary mix takes a leading role in the global theatre
Ron Cook and Steve Dixon want to see digital performance taught as an integral part of the arts curriculum There is a rapidly growing interest in the application of digital technologies to the...