France plans fast track to IT
France is battling to make up lost ground in the use of information and communication technologies in education and research. Under plans to develop digital education, teachers and students will soon...
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Learners must play leading role
Universities can no longer rely on the traditional lecture but the technology that will allow them to replace it with a more active learning experience has yet to be embraced fully. Roger Schank,...
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UK satellite star takes skill to US
An academic whose company is the first non-American supplier of a spacecraft to the US government has won the 2001 World Technology Award for space. Martin Sweeting of Surrey University was one of 23...
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Blind date leads to a canny union
Alan Marsh explains how he turned matchmaker between FE and HE in the fifth of our series from the grass roots. "Go get into higher education! It's further education's future," my head of department...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Management consultancy firms that spent last year worrying about how to attract graduates who were flocking to internet companies, now have a different problem: too many recruits. The...
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£80m hope for Rutherford lab The government is expected to spend £80 million to double the capacity of one of the instruments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The Isis neutron source is used by...
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The gains from collaboration
Consultation presents a rare opportunity for universities, says Gill Evans. So John Randall has resigned because he cannot put his heart into "leading the development work" on the consultation on the...
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Misled by example
Simeon Underwood urges a more thoughtful approach to the consultation on quality assurance. Immediately after announcing his resignation last week, John Randall engaged in a one-man media offensive...
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Why we... want football to be more radical on racism
Since the advent of the Premiership in 1992, English football has undergone a vast transformation. The game seems to dominate popular culture in a manner that it never has before and, despite regular...
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Hackles rise over lab plan
The government has thrown its weight behind Cambridge University's plans for a multimillion-pound animal research laboratory, insisting the primate facility will ensure the United Kingdom becomes a...
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Disneyland with the Queen? I recall it well
False memories can tarnish justice and even distort history, write Elizabeth Loftus and Maryanne Garry. Memories are among our most precious possessions. They define who we are as individuals and...
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Rear top herds on diet of data
Databases could help raise better livestock, says John Woolliams. One of the issues that the traumas of BSE and foot-and-mouth disease have highlighted is the need for more and better information...
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Time for universal rules for a fair trial
We are near consensus on ethics for medical research worldwide, says Jimmy Whitworth. Nowhere is the need for health research more pressing than in developing countries, which suffer 90 per cent of...
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Midlands mix of Koran, Kant and Kashmir
InWhat does democracy mean to a Muslim? Mandy Garner visits the institute tackling the issues that divide Islam and the West Markfield lies in the heart of the Midlands. About half an hour's drive...
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A cocktail of bombs, drugs and inequality that just keeps on killing
As a Colombian guerrilla group with leftist academic ties returns to its bloody campaign, Domenico Pacitti probes the roots of decades of violence. The failure of peace talks between the Colombian...