Gender defenders of Africa
IN 1991 a historic meeting in Paris, convened by the Association of Donors to African Education, brought together all the ministers of education in Africa. Only five were women and they were...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Kyushu, Southern Japan. The earthquake hits at 7.30am. Five point eight on the Richter scale with the epicentre in a nearby town. My hotel room jerks and sways violently like an Inter-City...
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Pension climbdown has a sting in its tail
YOU CAN tell how serious a government is about staying in office by the pace of its pre-election activities. If they are frenetic, ill conceived, subject to little or no consultation and, generally,...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Graduation at Dartington. Platform party galumph out to African drumming portraying a tale of rain turning to beer. Quick change and hurl through gale force wind and rain to Heathrow to...
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Student designs stir Milia 97
Over the past four years, Milia has established itself as digital media's premier international business exhibition and conference. Billed as the ultimate platform for interactive content providers...
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French library training 'inadequate'
France's grande ecole for librarians and information scientists is leaving students inadequately prepared for work in online libraries, according to a report from the country's academic assessment...
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US educators beam in
Jones Education, a United States cable TV company which specialises in education, has launched its Knowledge TV channel in Europe. Knowledge TV's US output includes programmes which form part of...
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Wired West
Four West London colleges have spent Pounds 500,000 on technology to deliver courses on the Internet. Students on a variety of courses can access study material, submit assignments and correspond...
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Mobile pregnancy monitoring system wins top Euro award
An edinburgh University project which uses new technology to allow pregnant women to be monitored at home rather than visiting a hospital specialist has won a major European award. The Telematic...
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Teesside VR centre forges business links
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
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Videoconferencing link in Highlands and Islands University
Videoconferencing will link the 12 institutions of Scotland's planned Highlands and Islands University, which are spread over an area larger than Belgium. In the Pounds 500,000 first stage of a...
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Enterprise charts course for campus connection
Teachers as much as learners are reacting in very different ways to the challenge of electronic distance education. Mark Childs reports on a West Midlands business-campus project. The Pounds 8.3...
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Teaching the art of e-surreality
Kate O'Neill describes her email classroom experience in New York. I began teaching a course last year on global environmental politics through the Dial (Distance Instruction for Adult Learners)...
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Legal action on growth
THE GOVERNMENT faces legal action from colleges protesting at instructions to stop enrolling new students because of problems with growth money, writes Harriet Swain. Solicitors for Newham College of...