Artificial environments; impact of information technology on business education

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It is argued that although most businesses and academic institutions use information technology (IT), they do so only to replace clerical systems. Word processing has replaced typewriting and spreadsheets manual calculations. IT is not being used in enough in business schools to simulate management situations and enable students to find solutions to everyday problems. It is felt that academic staff attitudes and collective responses to IT need to be overcome before it is used to its full potential in teaching.

Study and teaching, Business education

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Fears of ghosts and spectres; tension overshadows reform of East German higher education

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East Germany is attempting to reorganise its higher education by setting up commissions and investigations to remove former Communist and high-ranking officials from its educational system. Education was the backbone of Communism, and bodies such as the Gauck Authority are trying to find the fairest way of reorganising the system. Commissions are deciding who should go and who should stay, but their decisions have caused student protests, and are seen as an easy way of obtaining redundancies.

Social policy, East Germany, Germany, East

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Shephard in bid to smooth ruffled Department for Education

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Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Employment, is in favour of changing qualifications obtained after the school leaving age. Her department are working with the Department for Education to organise National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ's.) Some observers would like to see the two departments linked more closely together as education and training become more firmly linked. Mrs Shephard is concerned that far more is spent on education courses than on training courses.

United Kingdom, Political activity, Job qualifications, Shephard, Gillian

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