Distance-learning plan stalled
The relationship has cooled between Universitas 21 and Worldwide Learning, the News Corporation company with which U21 intended to establish a joint-venture company offering distance-learning courses...
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3-D camera to reveal sea life
A new camera that captures 3-D images for display as holograms was unveiled on Monday at the University of Loughborough. The Holocam will benefit marine biologists, divers surveying damage to sub-sea...
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Cardean wins degree powers
Few distance-learning operations can boast partners as illustrious as Columbia and Stanford universities and the London School of Economics. Cardean University can, but then, it is not a typical...
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Writing prize
Web authors have the chance to win Pounds 1,000 in a new-media writing competition organised by the Nottingham University-based group trAce and net publishing network Alt-X. Part of the challenge is...
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Sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available to academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Emeritus Fellowships...
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MADdm fun
Students on Coventry University's MA design and digital media course are showing their projects at the "MADdm degree show" from tomorrow. The projects include screen-based work, projections and...
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Smart learning
Design solutions company Macromedia has announced the first winners of its eLearning Innovation Award, which recognises authors of outstanding instructional content. Smart Force was selected as the...
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Top spin challenge
The Young Master of Spin 2000 competition challenges students and recent graduates to put themselves in the place of an IT PR consultant and create a good story from a difficult situation. Entrants...
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Wide open economy
Affordable broadband internet access for the knowledge economy is now available to single users and small businesses. It will speed the development of rich-media interactive learning, which has been...
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Richer links
A Belgian research team has developed a tool for linking knowledge services in the scholarly information environment. SFX allows a library to define links that fully integrate its information...
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Net fails to deliver mortal blow
Reports of the death of the traditional university are exaggerated, according to a debate on the future of higher education in Manchester last week. The motion, "Without the e-university, higher...
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Sailing with an Achilles' keel
Team Philips is notthe only twin-hulled catamaran to runinto problems.The first 17th-century 'double-bottom' was also a bummer. Stephen Pumfrey reports As the futuristic catamaran Team Philips...
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Is sports engineering worthy of serious research, or is it another way of cheating?
Sports engineering is topical during major sporting events. But is it a legitimate area for research? As a new lecturer in 1994, I was asked which area of research I intended to pursue. My choice of...
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Squirrels help to store organs
The biochemical tricks that the ground squirrel uses to hibernate through the Canadian winter may herald new ways to prolong the shelf-life of human transplant organs. Kenneth Storey and colleagues...
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Pensioner's pass fails to allow access to Tellyland
Older people feel television stereotypes them rather than showing their diversity. Karen Ross discusses a revealing new study Last year, Age Concern published a report that showed that older people...