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China is to greatly increase its investment in higher education distance learning over the next three years to facilitate the build-up of the country's educational infrastructure, and provide for the...
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Institutions in the Thames Valley and computer firm ICL have joined forces to launch a service providing online IT skills training to small and medium-sized firms in the region. Thames Valley...
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De Montfort University has launched three schemes to reward and encourage innovative teaching. Staff can bid for up to Pounds 1,000 to support development of teaching in their faculties. A...
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I'd like a one to one with my tutor
New software is giving computer-based assessment a lease of life, by enabling lecturers (and students) to post coursework on the internet. By Kim McCaffery Once upon a time, a student could write a...
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Prince of the low seas
Julia Hinde reports on plans for a JIF-funded vessel for monitoring shallow shelf sea ecology After 32 years of service, the Prince Madog is finally being retired to the sun. A little long in the...
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River management
JIF is not just helping scientists in their bid to clean up and understand coastal waters. Rather, a separate grant has paved the way for new research on river management. A Pounds 4 million grant...
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Move on mobiles
A new manufacturing technique devised at Warwick University means that scientists can now create high-tech ceramics to guard against dangerous microwaves from mobile phones, but without the risk of...
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Scientific advice on the health impacts of mobile phones
* The processes and structures used by government to obtain scientific advice on the health impacts of mobile phones are to be investigated by the House of Commons Science and Technology committee....
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Soft landing takes pain out of crashes
Software to take the pain out of computer crashes during transactions on the internet has been developed by a group of Newcastle University scientists. The new software ensures that electronic...
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Bargain basement economists
Six second-year economics students at the University of Sussex have just learnt a valuable lesson about market forces in the course of acting as part-time consultants to the education department at...
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'I can only afford half the tuition fees'
First-year medical student Matthew Bridge said this week he was unable to afford the Pounds 1,000 bill for tuition fees demanded by Leeds University, and he now fears he will be kicked off his course...
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'Flawed' Dearing logic dictates education policy
An economist claims to have discovered an anomaly in the Dearing report that undermines the government's tuition fees policy. Neil Kay, an economics professor at Strathclyde University, says the...
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Unions unite to fight fees
Students in England and Scotland have condemned the Scottish Parliament's three-month inquiry into tuition fees and are threatening a non-payment campaign. "The inquiry is just a way of side-stepping...
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Student leader is detained
Dissident Jiang Qisheng, who urged students to light candles to commemorate those killed in the 1989 pro-democracy protests he helped lead, has been detained by the Chinese police in Beijing. Mr...
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Forebears for several ages
Colin Renfrew's archaeology textbook is so popular people want him to autograph copies. Such success, he tells Nicholas Saunders, depends on avoiding 'boffinry'. For the best part of three decades,...