Punch-drunk set starts to sober up
Canadian universities have realised that e-learning is not about a fast buck and a camera in the classroom, says Philip Fine. Lowered profit expectations and a call for more instructional design have...
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Building bloc of clicks 'n' mortar
Online courses offered by a consortium of universities are attracting much interest in Asia and Europe. Geoff Maslen, in Melbourne, reports. The first specially developed courses to be delivered...
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Cleo Lab funds e-learning research
The Open University and Carnegie Mellon University will be funded for e-learning research projects by the Customised Learning Experience Online Lab. The lab is a one-year research collaboration...
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Electronic design software goes online for students
The Institute for System Level Integration in Scotland is claiming a world first for online engineering tuition as its masters and doctoral students met their tutors for the first time after...
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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Beaten, banged up but still unbowed
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has endured prison and had his books banned. But at 75, international recognition has finally beckoned. C. W. Watson reports. Book burnings and raids on libraries have been the...
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To declare your genius...
... just slip on a white lab coat. More than a shield against spills, it signifies membership of an isolated and elite world, argues Maura C. Flannery. The lab coat is a very persistent symbol of...
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How a handbag cast its shadow on places of light and learning
Stephen Court sketches the ups and downs that have characterised the relationship between politicians and academics over the last century. It is an irony that the prime minister with perhaps the...
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Latest UK news
Dons snub QAA review teams Lecturers have delivered a blow to the Quality Assurance Agency’s regime by refusing to sign up as academic reviewers. A motion passed at the annual council of the...
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Latest international news
California ditches affirmative action ban The University of California has dropped a six-year ban on the use of affirmative action in its admission procedures. The move is essentially symbolic. State...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Ali Afshari, one of Iran's most prominent student leaders and a leading member of the pro-reform Office to Foster Unity, who was arrested more than five months ago, has been shown on...
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Latest international news
Presidents threaten mass resignation All Greece's university presidents have threatened to resign unless the government modifies legislation being voted on in parliament today to upgrade technical...
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Latest UK news
London merger on the cards London Guildhall University and the University of North London today announced a strategic collaboration with a view to a merger which would create one of the largest...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph Scientists at Mie University, near Tokyo, have discovered a way of turning newspapers and waste paper back into wood. The Times A team of Greek archaeologists say that they may have...
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Latest UK news
Lib Dems' manifesto has student poverty focus Scrapping undergraduate tuition fees and restoring grants for poorer students are among the promises in the Liberal Democrat manifesto launched today....