eBook store opens
barnesandnoble.com and Microsoft are taking a step into the digital content future with the creation of a barnesandnoble.com eBook superstore using Microsoft Reader software. The eBook initiative...
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Literature on the web
CLCWeb is the only refereed online journal in the discipline of comparative literature and is peer-refereed quarterly with a distinguished advisory board. It maintains a library with bibliographies...
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Online teaching's costs are 'high, rewards low'
A committee of professors at the University of Illinois has concluded that the promised financial returns of distance education may be exaggerated. The group's report, Teaching at an Internet...
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Dance steps fill e-mall with life
Engineers at Edinburgh University have enlisted the aid of a choreographer in a bid to make e-commerce more appealing. Rachel Price is using dance theory to help computer animation experts in...
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Now lecturers can be in three places at once
International engineering experts may soon find themselves lecturing at Australian, British and Thai universities - all at the same time. State-of-the-art technology is being used to link the...
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Remedy inside the test tubers
Scientists are going back to nature to search for new drugs. Geoff Watts discovers yet more things to make with a potato. Chemists can now synthesise new molecules or refashion existing ones with an...
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Light shines on wings of colour
Researchers at Exeter University are harnessing the power of a new supercomputer to understand how attention-seeking butterflies make life so complicated. The examination of the structure of...
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Distance learning dismissed as just empty promises
Distance educators and their corporate partners in online instruction are following the path taken by the promoters of the first correspondence course, who were offering the public empty promises 100...
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The messy truth behind the quality assessment truce
All the organisations involved in the recent agreement on quality assurance are keen to put on a good face and claim victory for their position. The truth is messier. A number of factors are at work...
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GlaxoSmithKline deal should ring alarm bells
Beecham and Wellcome, the two most resonant names in British pharmaceuticals, will not be the only casualties of the Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham merger. Rationalisation will mean job losses...
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Ban battery methods
With a select committee about to start looking into HE, Gordon Marsden calls for an RAE that rewards all-round excellence. New century, new research assessment exercise. But will the 2001 RAE do the...
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The sour, unsavoury taste of food standards
Tim Lang is disappointed by the new UK and European food bodies, dismissing them as political tools rather than consumers' champions. Last Wednesday, in a delicious coincidence, the top brass at the...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds avaiable for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. THE ARES-SERONO FOUNDATION www.serono.ch/fellows/award.htm Since...
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Teaching problems?
Write to Pat Leon The THES Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield London E1W 1BX Fax: 020 7782 3300 Email: pat.leon@thes.co.uk
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How to help students with dyslexia
WHAT Dyslexia is often misdiagnosed by educators, writes Jennifer Currie WHY Because disability law expects universities to have support structures. HOW Picture the scene: a first-year film studies...