Mars Express radar deployment postponed
Paris, 29 Apr 2004 The MARSIS team has advised ESA to delay the deployment of the MARSIS radar instrument on board Mars Express, scheduled for this week. New and improved computer models suggest that...
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ICT in Higher Education, Issue No. 3
ICT in Higher Education, Issue No. 3 Published in The Times Higher on April 30 2004 Leader: John O'Leary 'It would almost now be unthinkable to provide new student accommodation...
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E-learning has had a bad press since the last of these supplements was published in November. Most obviously, the £62 million e-Universities project (UKeU) is to be “restructured” after enrolling...
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Portal combat
A revolutionary plan for an electronic student record offered by schools, colleges and universities is running into data-protection problems. Tony Tysome reports. Data protection is proving a...
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Love at first byte
Chemistry was not for Grainne Conole but technology inspired her and she is now a champion of e-learning. But this growing breed of professional is not getting a fair bite at the academic cake, as...
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Time to cut the cables?
A Dutch university is leading the way in Europe by going totally wireless. This has drastically changed the way students study and learn, as Pat Leon found out. Twente University in the Netherlands...
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Wireless warnings
Unless universities invest in secure wi-fi networks, individuals are likely to put their own systems in place. Pat Leon reports. An explosion of wireless hotspots is prompting campus managers to...
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Get the picture?
The digital archiving of images dating back to the earliest days of photography is set to revolutionise teaching. Chris Johnston finds out more. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but images...
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Speaking volumes
John Seely Brown, a star among Silicon Valley’s digerati, tells Stephen Phillips that high-tech zealots and computer gurus have much to learn from another brilliant human innovation - the book...
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Blog your way to a bright new future
Simply putting written materials online for students to read does not make for a constructive e-earning environment. As Olga Wojtas reports, it requires a totally new approach. Have you ever wondered...
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Access as the norm
A tick-box approach to accessibility is unlikely to work in practice, say Neil Witt and David Sloan. Students with disabilities should be involved in developing e-learning as part of a holistic...
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Viva Spain's king of the republicans
Paradoxically, Spain has a monarch to thank for steering it away from authoritarianism after Franco, historian Paul Preston tells Huw Richards in the first of a series examining democracies around...
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Can new neighbours tell Slovenia from Slovakia?
Like many Western Europeans, Silvio Berlusconi, could not distinguish between countries in Eastern Europe. Wendy Bracewell wonders how things will change as the EU expands From May 1, the European...
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Siblings, power play and family
Children's life choices can be influenced by not only parents and peers but also brothers and sisters, as experts are now recognising. Olga Wojtas reports. As the US presidential election heats up,...
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Freedom is ... the latest mobile
Ten years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's 'Born Free' generation are colour-blind, confident, brand-obsessed consumers, writes Karen MacGregor. "South African kids are sick of negativity...