Global learning
Hardware and software corporations are cooperating in a Pounds 310 million worldwide initiative to help teachers and trainee teachers effectively apply computer technology to improve student learning...
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Thinking aloud
Simon Schaffer, lecturer in the history of science at the University of Cambridge, has created a series of linked exhibitions and books that explore perception and communication in the digital age....
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Beowulf first
The British Library is releasing Electronic Beowulf on CD-Rom, in the wake of Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of the Anglo-Saxon text. The two-CD set includes the first complete colour...
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Labour paves way for community college bonanza
Education secretary David Blunkett's major policy speech on higher education was deliberately given at Greenwich University, once Woolwich Polytechnic, where in 1965 Anthony Crosland famously slammed...
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Why our research ties need no longer bind us
Universities must improve research partnerships. Huntington Williams believes the internet holds the key The university is divided between traditional teaching and its research mission. As a teaching...
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Diploma in disguise
This week, education secretary David Blunkett announced a new qualification, the two-year foundation degree, to start in 2001. The degrees, which will be in job-related subjects such as computing and...
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Prejudice under another name
Academics manipulate research on the family to confirm their own prejudices, argues Frank Furedi Politicians and all-purpose busy-bodies find it impossible to avoid the temptation to hold forth on...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an ever-changing work, published in 1886: " Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance,...
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Russian ideas that take on the world
Views from the Other Shore
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The police state is just a state of mind
Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain
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Bad blood and good intentions
The River
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Living by numbers and counting on testicles
The Mathematical Brain
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Playing on grass (and smoking it)
English Cricket
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Trust me, I'm a scientist
Prometheus Bedeviled
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Private acts in a public theatre
Lord Goodman