moved to living on the water almost three years ago, and one of the best things about being on a boat is the proximity to nature. One morning I opened the curtains to see a cormorant swimming westwards, fish-like and gleaming, slowly followed by a gaggle of foraging Canada geese. The whole of London’s canal network is designated a site …
Beginning with a Web development was previously a one-horse race, many people picking jQuery for a work. As technology advanced, and the Web extended to mobile, new tools were also introduced, not to rival jQuery or MooTools, but to improve the developers’ workflow. With AngularJS backed by Google and Facebook (the Instagram group to be more exact) driving React development, …
Lord Asa Briggs was one of Britain’s leading historians and a pioneer of adult education University of Sussex/PA Lord Briggs, one of Britain’s leading historians and adult education pioneers, has died aged 94. Lord Briggs of Lewes led a long and varied life, having checked Winston Churchill’s book proofs for historical accuracy and worked alongside code breaker Alan Turing at …
IT’S millions of years old, weighs in at an estimated 10 million tonnes, is more than 200m high and has a curious history. But it’s unlikely you would have ever heard of — let alone seen — this intriguing giant. That’s because the Rock of Guatapé monolith (also known as El Peñol) is far removed from the typical “attractions” on …
While the Moveo VR machine, first unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, was the flashiest part of Krush’s installation at SXSW, it was used to draw people to the company’s new emotion-reading apps (Credit: Michael Franco/Gizmag). View gallery (2 images) If you wander into the installation at SXSW sponsored by software developer Krush, you’ll be immediately taken …
Robert Spencer/Getty Images The Government’s “damaging” visa policies are making Britain a “difficult and unattractive” place to study for international students, a new report has warned. According to the findings from the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), last year’s business school student intake from outside the EU “fell sharply” by almost nine per cent. This, in turn, could have a …
owe my existence to skiing. At least that’s what my grandparents believed. Just before the Second World War they fled Prague for England with other Czech Jews, and after travelling across the border by train, stopped at a hotel for the night. Everyone was understandably tired and most went to bed early. But my grandfather stayed at the bar and, …
The inspectorate has been widely criticised for demoralising teachers and stagnating school improvement. Is it time to ditch the watchdog? What else might work? Professor John Macbeth from the University of Cambridge: ‘Ofsted focuses primarily on maths and English… They marginalise other creative aspects of school life…’ Photograph: Alamy “Scrapping Ofsted would leave us with a fragmented system” Dr Melanie …
This year’s winner, King’s College London’s Sierra Leone Partnership, developed a strategy that helped save lives in the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Connaught Hospital staff and the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership team work through the night to transform part of the outpatients department into a 16-bed isolation unit. Photograph: Joanna Dunlop/KSLP Winner: King’s College London King’s Sierra Leone Partnership …
The University of Hertfordshire’s Active Students programme saw previously sports-shy students try their hands at skiing, golf and other activities University of Hertfordshire students playing volleyball as part of the Active Students programme. Photograph: University of Hertfordshire Winner: University of Hertfordshire In partnership with Hertfordshire Sports Village, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and Hertfordshire Students’ Union, the university developed Active …