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The National Council for Educational Technology will again select the UK entries to the European Community Multimedia awards. The competition aims to encourage the creation of innovative educational...
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Dangerous skills perspective
TERRY HYLAND's attack is based around a variety of misconceptions, but I will respond to his main criticisms: the lack of any common definition of these skills and their lack of transferability. On...
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Don's Diary
Monday Three days to polling and the weather forecast predicts sunshine on Thursday. This should encourage a high turnout. The student voters in Edgbaston are mainly first-years in halls of residence...
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Blair's low-cost path out of the dark ages
DEAR MR BLAIR, Congratulations! The education service, and I guess most of those who lead our public services, looks to you to deliver us out of the dark ages and into the light of the new millennium...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers FUNDING FUNDING, fees and student loans will be top of David Blunkett's higher education action list, writes...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers FUNDING * VAT payment is the single biggest constraint on the take-up of the Private Finance Initiative in...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers UNIONS AT HIS first press briefing last week David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Employment,...
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Universities sue UK supplier
THE largest consortium of Australian universities is counter-suing a British-owned computer software supplier, CHA Computer Solutions Pty Ltd, for alleged late delivery and alleged shortcomings in an...
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Consciousness course
Next week the University of Arizona, Tucson launches an online course in the new science of consciousness, subject of last year's Tucson II conference, broadcast by The THES on the Internet (see...
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Strato-spheres
(Photograph) - Strato-spheres: Richard Mitchell, Brighton University's new professor of computing, used balloons in his inaugural lecture on Tuesday to illustrate issues facing software engineers as...
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French broadband library wants partnership with OU
THE resources of key French teaching and research bodies are now being pooled at the Sophia Antipolis Foundation in southern France, where fast and multimedia-friendly ATM switching could help to...
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US call for back-to-basics in IT
Alan Cromer is an American university physics professor, science education consultant and former academic software developer. But as far as he is concerned, the most important technological...
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Wired and emotional program helps students discover the underlying meaning behind rules
AN emotionally responsive computer program called Clegg has boosted the debate on how to improve learning. Bruce Geddes, a Durham University psychology postgraduate, and Rosemary Stevenson, reader in...
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Women join the training net from Canada to Tuvalu
THE first electronic network to be set up for women working in technical and vocational education and training in the Asia Pacific region has attracted interest from more than 20 countries. The...
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Fruit gum guide to the hypermedia universe
Planning a multimedia production? Roy Stringer (below) presents an original approach to nonlinear thinking, and colleague Charlotte Corke offers a guide to working successfully with multimedia...