'Guru of web usability' speaks
The successful development of the internet as a device for communication will only happen when education unpicks the bad design habits learned over the past five years, according to usability expert...
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Distance learning examined close up
A Glasgow University team aims to develop "data mining" techniques to assess whether huge investments in distance learning are paying off, writes Olga Wojtas. Glasgow argues that while millions of...
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Fill the knowledge gap and rebuild trust in science
Starting small in 1986, the public understanding of science has become big business. National Science Week - which starts today - is a timely point for the House of Lords to think what happens next....
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Government policies turn off target students
Warning bells should be ringing in ministerial ears this week as signs of frustration with the government's widening participation policy emerged in higher education ("Swapping the ghetto for the...
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What the future holds for graduate employment
Is a degree worth anything in the jobs market these days? Richard Pearson outlines the employment prospects for students The economy is booming, but many of this year's 200,000 graduate job seekers...
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AUST quality defended
Whistleblowers was critical of the Asian University of Science and Technology and its association with Imperial College (THES, February 25). I am proud to have been the founding dean of engineering...
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How to Survive an OU residential
WHAT Tutors are expected to guide students through huge chunks of course material at Open University schools WHY Tutors, like students, need to have confidence in their academic and social abilities...
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Open University facts
* The OU offered 235 residential schools for students on undergraduate degree-level courses in 1999 * 22,310 students attended these schools * About 25,000 students are studying at the OU at any one...
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Agony Aunt
Q Many of my colleagues do not want to take their full holiday entitlement because of their career commitments. I need the break, but I feel guilty about wanting to spend time with my family. What...
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Sharing our sense of wonder
Scientists are duty-bound to explain the significance of their work to the public, says Frank Close In National Science Week 1993 the minister for science, William Waldegrave, set high-energy...
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Banking on memories
There is no evidence that patients are being prompted to invent memories, says Bernice Andrews False memory syndrome hit the headlines in the early 1990s. Though it has never enjoyed official medical...
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Why I...think women should be allowed to study in single-sex colleges
Junior common room president at St Mary's College, Durham, one of five single-sex colleges in the UK When I first came to St Mary's, Durham University's only all-girl college, my mum thought that was...
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Science for the people
The city of Cambridge is filled with some extraordinary buildings, some beautiful, others less so. Many of the people who live, work and shop among those buildings have no connection with what goes...
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A waste of good ideas
Why is Britain not making the most of its innovations? The fault does not lie with academics, says Michael Rennie Why do university academics get the feeling that as well as providing an education...
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Discovery to put science in a spin
A cosmological mystery that seems to defy modern physics has emerged from the graceful spinning of spiral galaxies. Analysis by David Roscoe, a mathematician at the University of Sheffield, has...