Net reaches rural China but threatens teaching
China's ministry of education has taken more tentative steps into the online learning environment, allowing 25 universities to carry out internet trials. The number of Chinese universities offering...
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Oz buys British to sell world English
The University of Melbourne has bought the Edinburgh School of English, in Scotland, as part of its plans to establish a worldwide network of offshore English language schools. The purchase is the...
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Publishers call for end to bootleg textbooks
Rome police have pounced on a photocopying service close to La Sapienza University selling half-price photocopied "editions" of expensive textbooks. The investigation began when a partner in a...
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Libraries set up rival to slow search engines
An international group of academic libraries is setting up a reference desk online to rival ineffective search engines. The Collaborative Digital Reference Service expects to be fully operational by...
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Online course helps adults get web wise
The BBC has teamed up with colleges in the United Kingdom and six awarding bodies in a bid to help adult learners get "web wise" and gain a nationally recognised vocational accreditation. Becoming...
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Ignore internet 'at your peril'
The internet will force universities to abandon entrenched procedures and assumptions as its cost-cutting potential escalates, according to one educational technology expert. Diana Oblinger, of the...
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IBM puts Warwick ahead in Grid quest
Warwick University is playing an important part in the development of the "Grid" that will allow users to share remotely the computing power of their machines. The research will be boosted by last...
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The academic is dead, long live the academic
The traditional idea of lone academics should give way to a team-based approach, argues Stephen Court. Is the academic an endangered species? It is increasingly difficult to say that there is a...
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FE lecturers threaten to strike in pursuit of a £3,000 pay rise
Further education college lecturers are threatening an escalating campaign of strikes in pursuit of an immediate, no-strings £3,000 pay rise for all full-time staff. The campaign, launched this week...
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Internet copyright may be enforced
The right to fair dealing and to copyright waivers for education hangs in the balance after internal divisions delayed a vote in the European Parliament this week. The parliament is due to vote in a...
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Laureate criticised for attacking Hindu history
Right wing academics have criticised Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen for attacking a majority Hindu view of Indian history and calling it an organised attempt to rewrite history to suit a political...
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Death of Senegalese student draws inquiry Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade has called for an investigation into the death of a student in clashes with police during demonstrations against plans to...
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Daily TV & radio - Friday
Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Present-day Russia explored by Martin Wainwright via the themes of great Russian novels, beginning with Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . Culture Fix: Postmodernism (1....
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Crushed by the harrow
The notion of agriculture as an advance in society is wrong - 'potato growers' are more aggressive but no more superior than hunter-gatherers, Hugh Brody tells Chris Bunting. Hugh Brody has friends...
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Better home, better health
Urban regeneration improves not just the homes people live in, says Peter Ambrose, it also improves their health. Its downside, however, is that it makes life costlier, he tells Anne McHardy. Peter...