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Ministers are being told if they want students to work their way through college they will have to do more to help them find decent jobs. University job shops which have sprung up in the past few years are reporting record business, with more and more students looking for work. Read the Full Article http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1849000/1849549.stm
Babel University PST will pave the way with new possibilities for those who want to become professional translators. Obtaining a degree in translation is now possible online Read The Full Article http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020301wob3.htm
Australian universities are increasingly using online technology, says Anne Martin, deputy vice-chancellor of Deakin University. “However, a lot of claims about being online really mean supplemental use of it or components of courses being delivered that way,” she says. Read The Full Article http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2002/02/27/FFXELND06YC.html
The difficulties of understanding and educating children with autism can make parents and teachers “desperate,” says Sarah Roche, a project staff assistant at the State University of New York at Albany. Through a three-course certificate program, the university uses a variety of distance-learning media to provide instruction in what can be an exhausting field. http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022801u.htm
Technology that allows disks to be written twice as fast could be available in a drive near you as early as May. The next speed jump for recordable and rewritable DVD drives is expected to come as early as May of this year now that two Japanese companies have completed development of components crucial for […]
Forget upgrades—new tools make the most of existing networks AT FENWICK & WEST, a high-powered law firm in Silicon Valley, 10,000 e-mails cross the wires each day. E-mail is the primary way the firm’s fleet of lawyers, located in Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco and Washington, D.C., communicate with their clients. Unfortunately for the IT […]
Although storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) are usually perceived as competing technologies, the two can actually complement each other. SAN and NAS architectures are on the road to convergence within a few years. Enterprises should understand the implications and available options to prepare for upcoming advances in storage technology. Read The Full […]
The videos include both interviews with University of Maryland Medical Center and School of Medicine experts that originally aired on the TV show Maryland Health Today, and overviews of some of the Medical Center’s specialty services
A new professional development book aimed at helping school and university leaders train K-12 teachers how to integrate technology into their instruction. It is now available from the International Society for Technology In Education (ISTE). Read The Full Article http://eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3539
THE CONTENTIOUS INTERNET Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, better known as the Tauzin-Dingell bill, late Wednesday afternoon won approval in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 273-157 and now faces a battle in the Senate. The bill is intended to make it easier for incumbent local phone companies such as Verizon Communications […]