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Video conferencing will make good teaching bad and bad teaching worse, argue Peter Cope and Sally Brown Contrary to what we are frequently told, video-links that aim to reproduce conventional...
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Time to bring back the chalk to the talk-face
Richard Marquiss would like to pull the plug on the overhead projector I recently attended a research presentation where I became rapidly mesmerised by the use made by the presenter of our old friend...
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Interview
Huw Richards talks to Andrew Dilnot about next Wednesday's Budget - Labour's first since 1979. It wasn't until the 1970s that serious political attention started to focus on tax and public finance. "...
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Awards
American Society for Nutritional Sciences The Lederle Award in Human Nutrition has been conferred on John Scott, professor in the department of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Scott...
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Fellowships
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The following were awarded senior fellowships by the council: Michael Ashfold, professor in the school of chemistry at the University of Bristol;...
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Patron of the skills arsenal
For 15 years Richard Layard has believed that tackling unemployment meant weaning the long-term jobless off the benefit culture. Now he has a chance to put some flesh on the bones of his theory...
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How dumb teenagers can win prizes
Martin Ince talks to Pat Shipman and Alan Walker, the winners of the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, whose revelations about a 1.5-million-year old skeleton added much to our knowledge of the '...
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Media glare takes toll on Dolly's 'dad'
Fame has put the world's first cloned sheep on a diet and left her co-creator, Ian Wilmut, feeling a little frazzled. Julia Hinde reports Dolly's on a diet. The world's most photographed sheep has...
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Seeing the white
Richard Dyer leaps to the defence of white studies because, he argues, it forces us to see whiteness as strange rather than as the benchmark of what is ordinary It doesn't take much to raise the...
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An old leftie feels alrighty
After a dismal two decades for the left in Britain, Michael Foot at long last has something to celebrate. Brian Brivati finds Hampstead's most famous resident relishing his party's election landslide...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Lampeter Dan Cohn Sherbok, rabbi, formerly at the University of Kent at Canterbury, has been appointed to a chair in Judaism. University of East London The following chairs have...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research contracts Ms H. Kemshall, Pounds 37,000 from 糖心Vlog Office Probation Training Unit (project to inform future policy on training and development in relation to...
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The orator's obituary
The lecture was invented in the 5th century bc. Now it has had its day, says John Wakeford What, one muses, reminded of Darwin's experience as one sits through yet another colleague's inaugural, will...
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Campbell gets science policy role
ANNE Campbell, MP for Cambridge, is to become John Battle's private parliamentary secretary, giving the former member of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology an influential...
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Leslie and his third age eye-opener
Leslie Kennedy-Perry lost out on higher education first time around because he was with the RAF fighting in the second world war. Now, aged 76, he is studying part time for a masters degree in...