France plans fast track to IT
France is battling to make up lost ground in the use of information and communication technologies in education and research. Under plans to develop digital education, teachers and students will soon...
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Learners must play leading role
Universities can no longer rely on the traditional lecture but the technology that will allow them to replace it with a more active learning experience has yet to be embraced fully. Roger Schank,...
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UK satellite star takes skill to US
An academic whose company is the first non-American supplier of a spacecraft to the US government has won the 2001 World Technology Award for space. Martin Sweeting of Surrey University was one of 23...
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Blind date leads to a canny union
Alan Marsh explains how he turned matchmaker between FE and HE in the fifth of our series from the grass roots. "Go get into higher education! It's further education's future," my head of department...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Management consultancy firms that spent last year worrying about how to attract graduates who were flocking to internet companies, now have a different problem: too many recruits. The...
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£80m hope for Rutherford lab The government is expected to spend £80 million to double the capacity of one of the instruments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The Isis neutron source is used by...
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The gains from collaboration
Consultation presents a rare opportunity for universities, says Gill Evans. So John Randall has resigned because he cannot put his heart into "leading the development work" on the consultation on the...
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Misled by example
Simeon Underwood urges a more thoughtful approach to the consultation on quality assurance. Immediately after announcing his resignation last week, John Randall engaged in a one-man media offensive...
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Why we... want football to be more radical on racism
Since the advent of the Premiership in 1992, English football has undergone a vast transformation. The game seems to dominate popular culture in a manner that it never has before and, despite regular...
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Latest UK news
Slump in science applications The number of people signing up to do degrees in the traditional science subjects of physics, chemistry and biology is down this year compared with 2000, according to...
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From today's UK papers
Guardian The international Commission on Global Ageing has warned that the rapid ageing of developed-world populations is a threat to the global economy. Independent The world's rarest whale may be...
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French police issue photofit after murder at business school French police have issued a photofit of a young man following the murder of the head of security at Insead, one of France's top business...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Animal-rights campaigners are planning to launch legal proceedings against Huntingdon Life Sciences unless the government takes action against the drug-testing group for breaking...
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Brazilian education minister Paulo Renato Souza has announced free pre-university admission courses reserved exclusively for black students, ahead of this week’s UN conference on racism in Durban. Mr...
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Genetics firms battle over chickens University of Georgia-based AviGenics has filed a lawsuit in the United States to prevent Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and US biotech firm Viragen from pursuing...