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Entries from March 10th, 2009

Are people really gleeful at failure?

March 10th, 2009 No Comments

I was catching up with the Times Higher Education Supplement this morning and came across an article, I think by Gloria Monday on “Plagiarism: an inconvenient truth”. Sure Plagiarism is an issue, one that all of those involved with marking - be that university level or otherwise - have probably come across at some time [...]

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Higher Education hit by the economic downturn

March 10th, 2009 No Comments

I was interested to read THIS ARTICLE yesterday in the New York Times and it got me thinking about how important ULTRAVERSITY … otherwise known as the BA in Learning, Technology and Research Degree … is in providing an affordable option for further study in this time of economic downturn. I decided to take a [...]

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Eureka!

March 2nd, 2009 4 Comments

This weekend just gone, I was working down at Brunel University at an event organized by Prof Mariyln Leask, MirandaNet and funded by Becta. The aim of the weekend was to draft up an advisory paper on ICT Tools for Future Teachers and about 30 of us gathered from the Primary, Secondary, FE and HE [...]

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