More join RAE lynch mob
The integrity of the research assessment exercise suffered another setback this week as academics called for an inquiry into the dismal performance of pharmacology and physiology. The two disciplines...
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Taxonomy faces extinction in UK as cash dries up
The scientists who discover, describe and classify new species are facing extinction, writes Steve Farrar. According to the House of Lords science and technology select committee, systematic biology...
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Environment suffers damage
The Natural Environment Research Council has cancelled the summer round of its Standard Research Grant awards - worth £10 million - in a bid to address a £13.2 million financial shortfall, The...
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Libraries told to turn over new leaf to survive The traditional role of British libraries as bastions of free reading and quiet study could end within 20 years unless they adapt to modern users’...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Spaceman will launch African virtual venture
A Nasa-trained chief executive, £13 million of backing and degrees from first-world educators - the future looks bright for the AVU. Kihumba Kamotho reports The African Virtual University has been...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Digital deprivation
Whatever technology's benefits for some of us, it has not changed the lives of most. But education is key to the places politicians and economists cannot reach, says Brenda Gourley Higher education...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Voices of hope give courage to deliver
Can distance learning help get South African higher education back on its feet, asks Richard Mawditt For nearly a decade following the African National Congress initiative, which set the parameters...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Lecturer is heard beyond the back row
Clare Chapman reports on a user-friendly system being pioneered in Germany that puts lectures on the net A simplified system that enables students to access university lectures through the internet...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Tutorials emailed to your fridge...
...not quite yet. Despite the government heralding a virtual learning revolution, Caroline Ingram says the use of IT in education is still in its infancy How will students learn in the future? If we...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Ready to blossom at a distance
Nigerians want to quench their thirst for study and distance education may do just that. Tunde Fatunde reports Nigeria's first attempt at establishing an open university - in 1983 during the second...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Survival of the fittest provider
Nerves have been tested in Canadian distance learning, says Philip Fine Private-sector instability and government priorities have put a dent in some Canadian e-learning plans this year but the sector...
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World Education Market 2002: <br> Nurses reach sisters online
Informal chatrooms are aiding professional development in nursing. Peter Murray reports Late one evening, worried about what she had seen in the ward she was working on, a nurse sat at her computer...
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Monarchy special
"How has having a monarchy influenced your sense of national identity? What would your country be like without a monarchy?" The THES is collaborating with openDemocracy.net for a special report on...
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Sink schools?
The education that produced the overeducated, unhappy, lonely Bridget Jones generation of women must be rethought, James Tooley (above) tells Jennifer Wallace, and girls should be steered on an...
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Bio-Luddites square up to friends of Frankenstein
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...