A schoolchild tries out an interactive multi-touch desk. CREDIT: North News and Pictures "There's been an explosion in technology-enhanced learning in the last 10 years as technology has become more affordable and widespread." --Shaaron Ainsworth The Usability Lab, tucked away inside the offices of the Active Learning in Computing group at Durham University in the north of England, is a schoolchi...
International student desk at Imperial College London Angela Saini "The government has no idea where very large numbers of international students are in the U.K. It doesn't even know if people who have been granted student visas have arrived." --Dominic Scott, U.K. Council for International Students Affairs The U.K. government's plan to introduce a points-based immigration system won't begin to ...
Patricia Alireza (Angela Saini) Patricia Alireza (Angela Saini) "I was always the older one in the class. It was a very hard thing to catch up because, after all, I hadn't done any math for 15 years!" -Patricia Alireza Standing in her corner of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics group at University College London, Patricia Alireza looks much younger than her 51 years. That's fitting, beca...
Victoria-Alice Porter (QinetiQ) Victoria-Alice Porter (QinetiQ) "The breadth and variety of the different work you can get involved in is one of the best things about a career in defense." --Miranda Davies From the age of 12, Samantha Ridgway dreamed of becoming a pilot. "Then I got asthma," she says. The chronic disease grounded her flying ambitions but not her love of aircraft: "I thought, ... ...
