Learning the price of quality
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The mediocrity of multimedia learning packages in the UK has more to do with the nature of the market than with a failure to produce a new breed of creative cross-disciplinary managers as has been claimed. The UK market for multimedia learning products suffers from a number of structural problems, including an effective duopoly in the retail market. The main problem is the highly segmented nature of the education market and its gross underfunding. The need to produce multimedia learning packages that schools can afford on their limited budgets hampers the creative process and makes mediocrity inevitable.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Maths for the 21st century
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Mathematics is often used by other disciplines to help investigate and analyze problems. The application of mathematics is used by a range of industries during research on how to make improvements to their manufacturing process. Mathematical models are used in a whole range of businesses, such as statistical models for the financial markets. Some 20 scientific organisations will join together at the Fourth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. It is due to be held on 5th-9th July 1999, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Learning for the 21st Century
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The UK's National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning believes that the government's main aim should be to develop an organized education system for lifelong learning. New opportunities should be offered to the majority rather than the minority and access to learning should be universal. An abridged version of the group's report is presented.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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