New Internet tutorial for Arts and Crafts

Intute has released a new internet searching tutorial for Arts and Crafts. Suggested web sites and useful tips for searching the Internet.

There are also internet tutorials for Art & Design and Architecture.

E-book reader

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader has sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular.

A notice on the Kindle pages on the Amazon web store said “heavy customer demand” for the device meant it would be out of stock until 3 December.

Since its launch on 19 November the device has been widely examined but opinions about it are mixed.

It has won praise for being easy to use but many have criticised the way it forces people to pay for free content.

BBC Technology News for more …

A Long way to go …

 

Nearly a quarter of a million children travel well beyond their neighbourhood each day in the quest for a good education, a report by the Conservative thinktank, the Policy Exchange, will say this week.

According to its findings, 240,000 out of a population of almost 3 million pupils attend schools outside their local authorities. Half of the children in the worst local authorities choose to be taught in another council area and nearly a third of the enrolments in schools in good council areas come from elsewhere.

See Guardian Unlimited Mortarboard for more.

Book Buying Event!!!

To all staff…read on!

Dates: 10^th – 14^th Dec 2007Time: 9.30 – 13.00

Venue: Peirson Library

Includes: Opportunity to meet with the Subject Collections Librarians, order texts for your students, ask any collections-related questions, even bring your reading lists along! And…there will be demonstrations of electronic ordering and ‘Slipstream’, the new books alerting service from our main book supplier. 

Please, please come and spread the word as this event has not always been that well attended, but it is a fantastic opportunity to address that old chestnut “The Library never has the books I want…”

A weak formula for legislation : how loopholes in the law are putting babies at risk

 

This 12-page report has been published jointly by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), Save the Children and UNICEF UK. It examines the way in which infant formula manufacturers are taking advantage of loopholes in the law that allow promotion of ‘follow-on milks’ and illegally advertising their products. Read the report here.

How do people change during psychotherapy – the clients’ perspective

Presumably the goal of psychotherapy is some kind of psychological change for the better, but what is that change and how does it happen? Psychological models refer to such things as ’stages of change’ and assimilation, but few researchers have sought the views of clients who have undergone therapy.

Read a discussion here on this qualitative research study on the clients’ perspectives on the changes brought about through therapy. The article citation is:

Carey, T.A., Carey, M., Stalker, K., Mullan, R.J., Murray, L.K. & Spratt, M.B. (2007). Psychological change from the inside looking out: A qualitative investigation. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 7, 178-187.

Million+ new universities

 

Million+ is a UK university think-tank, that represents the interests of a range of new universities that have been incorporated since 1992 and is the new name for the Campaign for Mainstream Universities / Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU). As well as acting as a collective voice for their members, Million+ also commissions / conducts policy research into the higher education sector.

Newly formed in November 2007, the website [covers] basic information, news and links to relevant reports.

Olympic flame

Survey reveals support for Games in London
A new nationwide survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) has revealed that 76 per cent of people questioned are pleased London is staging the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012.

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Creative Review Blog

CR Blog brings you the latest news and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review (one of our print journals).

Improve your writing with AskOxford.com

AskOxford.com is maintained by Oxford University Press – Oxford Dictionaries.It provides free advice and tips on improving writing skills which would be of value to students. It includes sections on English language grammar; spelling writing letters and CVs.Some samples can be downloaded.