Students flock to online library
More than 1,000 students a month are signing up for the Open University's new electronic library service for distance learners. About 8,000 have registered so far with the Open Library. It offers...
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WAP with ease
The entry cost of the provision of education information services and business applications via mobile phone has been cut substantially by an agreement between Nokia and Macromedia. The two companies...
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Knowledge link
Cambridge University's business school, the Judge Institute of Management, has joined forces with FT Knowledge to develop an executive MBA. It will combine access to management experts with...
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Short and sweet
Students at the University of Turin will soon be able to receive automatic messages on their cellphones giving details of scheduling of oral and written exams. They will also be able to register to...
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Common cause
The Commonwealth Institute is promoting a virtual content debate on its website - created by education specialist Keith Yeomans. Mr Yeomans will be online today on the eCommonwealth website between...
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Calculated genius
A simple but powerful calculator for a computer screen has been designed by scientists at Cardiff University. TrianaCalc is as easy to use as a pocket calculator and as powerful as a computer. It can...
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Data search
Coventry University researcher Lesley Wears has been awarded more than Pounds 150,000 to develop improved methods of storing data. The density at which data are stored on local servers must increase...
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Good...but still short of a joined-up science policy
Like last week's spending review, this week's science white paper, Excellence and Opportunity, builds on a position that is already enviable by world standards. The UK is disproportionately good at...
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High fees put notion of value for money at risk
Further education faces an even tougher task than higher education in meeting government targets for overseas student recruitment (page 4). The targets are ambitious and achieving them will depend on...
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Intellectual bridge over troubled political water
'Academic diplomacy' can succeed in nurturing trust between nations where politicians fail, says Benjamin Ladner After a long day of discussions with North Korean government leaders and professors...
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Divided stand on job protection
It is sad, if not surprising, that Natfhe has decided to break ranks with the Association of University Teachers and sign the employers' code of practice that legitimises the growth of casualised...
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Divided stand on job protection
National bargaining is not "close to collapse". On the contrary all higher education unions last month successfully negotiated an agreement on equal opportunities with the employers' association....
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Divided stand on job protection
The guide to good practice in fixed-term and casual employment is advice from the employers' association to its members, but it binds them to nothing. It is all about managing, not reducing, casual...
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Divided stand on job protection
The UCEA proposals are twofold. First, they suggest employers should support the requirements of employment legislation - this is good news. Second, they attempt to put a seal of approval on the near...
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Anti-Zionist at heart
Norman Finkelstein is right to claim that there exists a thriving Holocaust industry ("Shaking down the Swiss", THES, July 21). A few years ago, when I was teaching in the United States, a colleague...