My teacher's square and flat

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Videoconferencing can be a useful teaching aid, and can be used for questioning students. It is not appropriate to lecture students or seek to provide content using this method, but it can be of particular help to students in isolated rural locations.

Author: Fine, Philip
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2000
Usage, College administration, Distance education, Videoconferencing

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Canadian heads to be held to account

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University heads in Canada may be held accountable for their actions as elected officials after a Supreme Court ruled in favour of a student who claimed he had been arbitrarily suspended. Daniel Freeman-Maloy was suspended in 2004 for hree years by Dr Lorna Marsden, York University president, without a tribunal appearance or the chance for appeal.

Author: Fine, Philip
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, College presidents

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Canada shifts data from US

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Canadian universities using a US service for storing academic research files have decided to relocate their data to a domestic server to escape the US Patriot Act. The move comes amid fears that US surveillance could target academics researching areas considered sensitive by the US government.

Author: Fine, Philip
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
Use of services, Outsourcing

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