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An exclusive interview with Air Vice Marshal Mark Green, Royal Air Force
Cuts in Britain’s defence budget have meant that the Royal Air Force has been forced temporarily to freeze pilot recruitment and reduce the current number of student pilots by a...
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Recent advances in life sciences and biotechnology have brought greater medical benefits but they have also been the focus of increasing concern about their potential misuse. One answer to the problem is to educate life scientists to appreciate their ow...
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Virtual science map launched on second life
An interactive map tracking British scientific research, accessible worldwide to millions of Second Life internet surfers appeared at the British Science Festival.
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China plays a major role financing and supplying telecom and ICT equipment to Africa, a precondition for eLearning. Chinese companies have broken the monopoly of Western telecom giants in Africa, helped to bring down charges and contributed to the t...
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by Alan Bruce, Universal Learning Systems
Alan Bruce discusses the Creanova project, a major EU project funded under the Transversal Research element of the Lifelong Learning Program. This project has at its core an examination of the contours and impe...
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E-Learning helps spot forget passports
Thousands of British immigration officers have now been trained to spot counterfeit documents in a worldwide interactive e-learning scheme designed to beat forgers.
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Armed conflict & education – UNESCO report
UNESCO expects sexual violence and rape to rob 28 million children of an education in 2011. Rape, sometimes deliberately organised by senior political and military leaders, is singled out as the caus...
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"Augmented Reality will change all of us" - AR on trial in Antwerp
Back in 1992 the Boeing scientists Tom Caudell and David Mizell coined the phrase Augmented Reality to describe how aircraft assemblers in Seattle were given head-mounted displays that sh...
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Nigerians learn new campaigning skills
New communications technology and social networking are about to influence the politics of the African Continent once again. This time it is Nigeria, where President Goodluck Jonathan (above) and other leaders, ar...
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by Sandy Sweet, Canadian Police Knowledge Network
E-Learning isn’t something that you would naturally associate with pirates. But in today’s high-risk mariner environment, knowing how to respond effectively to a pirate attack is the difference betw...
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Recent events in Egypt and Tunisia have again thrown into sharp focus both the use of social networking by demonstrators and the increasing inability of governments to control the free flow of information. Andrew Rosthorn investigates.
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Cyber warriors wanted by Uncle Sam
In the face of continuing threats to online security and a potential future shift from conventional warfare to targeted cyber attacks, the risks of a cyber war are serious. Now the US Cyber Challenge has been lau...
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Fraunhofer makes CCTV camera work like human eye
It looked as though only the human brain could fix on a single unusual event when viewing a constantly moving background of roaring sports fans. But the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technol...
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Crime labs under the gun to beat backlogs
The average smart American TV CSI can solve a case in 53 minutes. His real life contemporaries take weeks, months, even years, to finish a job. In parts of the USA as many as 70 per cent of all forensic science...
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Britain'S RAF to cut trainee pilots
Air Vice Marshal Mark Green, the head of Royal Air Force training, told a hundred student pilots on February 15 that they will lose their jobs without earning their wings. The British government is scrapping all its ...
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by Capt. António Almeida de Moura, Portuguese Navy
Captain António Almeida de Moura of the Portuguese Navy analyses the impact of technological change on our understanding of responsibility. He argues that critical thinking will be a crucial skill in...
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Police officers in the county of Lancashire in the North of England have been told to take seriously the threat to their communities from an unseen wave of web-based crime and start training to fight it. Harold Heys talks to Det. Insp. Janet Baldwin (pict...
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US uses mobile learning in fight against human traffickers
eXact learning solutions, formerly Giunti Labs, are providing mobile learning materials for US Department of Defense (DoD) personnel after President Obama's call for a National Slavery and Huma...
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A local initiative by provincial Canadian police has resulted in a national programme to provide training to deal with the problem of officer - involved collisions on Canadian main roads. R.A. Sandy Sweet reports.
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Training for cloud computing
Data leaks and malware are the top security threats for 2011 according Norbert Kiss, Singapore-based vice president of the internet security firm Astaro.
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