People's University challenge to regime
Belarus, where higher education is coming under increasing pressure from the authoritarian regime of president Alaksandr Lukashenka, has become the latest country in Europe to launch an alternative...
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Clinton turns from colleges to schools
The Clinton administration has firmly shifted its priorities away from widening access to colleges in favour of school improvements. Education secretary Richard Riley confirmed the priority following...
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Smart to be simple
Harold Thimbleby challenges the view that lifelong learning should equip people to cope with an ever more complex world Each person now consumes more energy, travels faster and is able to consume...
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Welsh wizardry gives managers the edge
A management information system based on one devised in Wales has been adopted by eight technical colleges in Victoria under an Aus$8 million upgrade which promises to revolutionise many aspects of...
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Novel appointments
Nottingham Trent University's trAce online writing community (trace.ntu.ac.uk) has signed up three virtual writers-in-residence for six-month stints, beginning with Florida-based Christy Sheffield...
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Grove for academe
The Combined Higher Education Software Team and publishers Macmillan have announced an academic licence for the Grove Dictionary of Art Online. Subscribing institutions gain access to text articles...
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Star quiz
Test your knowledge of space, the Spice Girls or the Teletubbies at the University of Portsmouth astronomy site, meat.csm.port.ac.uk. Set up with funding from the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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Faulty footage
More trivia can be found at Southampton University, where Jon Sandys has created a Movie Mistakes website, www. soton.ac.uk/jwes197. The site's growing fame is such that a German film crew flew over...
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How to Get more out of case studies
WHAT John Heath tells teachers to forget conventional methods for a while and get a group of students working on a case study WHY A good case study develops deeper understandingof issues, encourages...
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Euro-MP push on Italian lecturers
Pisa An inquiry into allegations that the European Commission is seriously mishandling legal action against Italy for alleged job discrimination involving 1,500 foreign-language lecturers is being...
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Up the Amazon
Online retailer Amazon.co.uk is to sponsor the British Library's Online Public Access Catalogue (http://opac97. bl.uk). Simon Murdoch, managing director of the company, said the association would...
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Well connected
AT&T, the US telecoms group that recently formed a global partnership with BT, is the new funder of the Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory in Cambridge, to be known as AT&T...
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Trunk-aided guide to learning with a purpose
Passivity is the curse of digital learning but researchers at the OU have developed a solution, Stephen Pritchard reports Academics with reservations about computer-based learning often worry that...
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Failing teachers face online ratings from students
Students at Montreal's Concordia University will now be able to exchange stories about those professors who themselves deserve failing grades, thanks to a new website for evaluating professor...
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Charge of the freedom thinkers' brigade
Joseph Saunders describes the worldwide civil rights' work of the Academic Freedom Programme Academics are favourite targets of tyrants. Universities provide a protected space for free inquiry and...