Setting the teaching world alight
Business software developer Gael aims to help the global learning market "work smarter, not harder". The United Kingdom-based company has developed Ygnite, a commercial software tool that will allow...
Business software developer Gael aims to help the global learning market "work smarter, not harder". The United Kingdom-based company has developed Ygnite, a commercial software tool that will allow...
Radical government plans are set to overhaul distance learning in South Africa. Karen MacGregor reports. Post-apartheid change has been a relatively long time coming to distance learning in South...

China's ministry of education allowed 25 more major universities to carry out online education or education via the internet trials in the past year. That brings to 31 the number of Chinese...
The Commonwealth of Learning backs access to knowledge, explains Gajaraj Dhanarajan While the Education and Training for All challenge, agreed to by the international community, is largely the same...
Online learning has not replaced traditional styles of distance education, but Sir John Daniel believes it still has the potential to shake things up During last year's dotcom frenzy, there was a...
To succeed, the e-U must ignore technomania, ensure high-quality provision and encourage the best possible terms and conditions for staff, argues Rob Copeland. Plans for a UK e-University (e-U)...
Italian distance learning is proving popular in places such as Sardinia and is growing fast. Paul Bompard looks at what's being offered. The past couple of years have seen a flowering of online...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
... 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...
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...