Hard line
A small rural college has become the first in America to require that prospective undergraduates apply only online, writes Jon Marcus. West Virginia Wesleyan College, which has about 1,650 students,...
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Feel the heat
A new online-course community hopes to do for adult learning what Amazon.com did for the book-selling business. Hotcourses.com is a free website that covers about 50,000 courses, ranging from MBAs to...
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Free classes
Barnes&Noble.com will start offering free online classes this summer, allowing people to learn about everything from astronomy to dieting. The New York-based retailer said that it was building...
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Heritage trail
Unesco's Memory of the World Programme promotes the preservation of and access to the world's documentary heritage. The second international conference for the programme will be held in Colima,...
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United formula
Ingenta, the research destination site and niche e-community developer, is developing a universal neurochemistry resource on the web for the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN). The...
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Peter Reeves, product specialist with Faro UK
(Photograph) - Peter Reeves, product specialist with Faro UK, demonstrates his company's FaroArm, a computer-aided tool designed to provide portable precision measurement, at an interactive...
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Be sensitive to Chinese minds
WHAT. Pat Leon talks to Yvonne Turner about the classroom culture shocks thatChinese students suffer here. WHY. If Britain wants to attract foreign students, lecturers must understand their education...
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The give-and-take case for overseas students
The vision of open access is clouded by a world market where money reigns supreme, argues Lalage Bown. The criticism of exclusivity lobbed at certain British universities implies, however...
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Pay blights prospect of recruiting young talent
Universities are short of money: a message that the government seems reluctant to hear, though evidence to the select committee (page 3) this week will once again have rammed home the message. Higher...
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Two-way tug on merged budget for health care
What is wrong with the National Health Service? Not much, according to health secretary Alan Milburn, who says that Labour has met its 1997 election promises on health and is moving on to yet higher...
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Oh lord (and lady)
Lord Baker is correct to highlight the chronic underfunding afflicting universities and many will agree with his analysis (Soapbox, THES, June 16). But was he not a Tory MP, secretary of state for...
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Oh lord (and lady)
One vital function of universities is to question received wisdom - of precisely the type expounded by Baroness Blackstone that the chief task of universities is to serve the needs of the economy and...
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Indicators of concern
There is an overwhelming case for some form of performance measurement for all organisations. The recent Times and Financial Times exercises have produced indicators that are being developed into "...
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To admit, to pass and to fail
You are right to ask if it is really impossible to crack post-qualification admission (Leader, THES, June 9). There is no doubt it would be possible. All the Department for Education and Employment...
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To admit, to pass and to fail
Most students now apparently get a 2:1 of some sort. How this has come about perhaps matters less than what to do in the future. A levels are changing, and we should start looking ahead and introduce...