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    <title>Nature Network - education</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for education</description>
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      <title>David Baltimore's advice to graduate students</title>
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        <![CDATA[Anna Kushnir - In a recent "interview in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology":http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v9/n9/full/nrm2482.html, "David Baltimore":http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-autobio.html, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for the discovery of reverse transcriptase, gives his thoughts on the current graduate education system in America, and suggests a]]>
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      <title>Regional and minority languages</title>
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        <![CDATA[sara abdulla - A recent _Nature_ editorial called for the "protection of regional and minority languages":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7199/full/4531144b.html in France and elsewhere. A cautionary response on _Nature’s_ Correspondence page, claiming that "schools in a third of Spain teach only in minority languages":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/454575d.html, is itself prompting]]>
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      <title>DIUS Blogs!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Branwen Hide - In a bid to gain opinions and views on higher education issues "DIUS":http://www.dius.gov.uk/ (Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills) in partnership with "JISC":http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ have launched a "Blog":http://hedebate.jiscinvolve.org/. The Blog asks for contributions on a variety of themes, including research carers,]]>
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      <title>Julian G. Franco</title>
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        <![CDATA[Julian G. Franco - ]]>
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      <title>These students are getting younger</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - When I was a lad, and the Internet was all fields, the idea of going to university seemed far-fetched. I grew up in a small, working-class town in the north-east of England, where very few people went on to higher]]>
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      <title>Jane Goodwin</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jane Goodwin - ]]>
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      <title>Dr.Mythili Jagannath</title>
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        <![CDATA[Dr.Mythili Jagannath - ]]>
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      <title>Edublogging at Science Blogging 2008: London</title>
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        <![CDATA[Martin Fenner - The "Science Blogging 2008: London":http://www.nature.com/natureconferences/sciblog2008/index.html conference will highlight the wide variety of science blogging that has evolved in recent years. I haven't seen anybody trying to create formal categories, but I see *research blogging*, *conference blogging*, *watercooler blogging*, *comic strip]]>
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      <title>Breakout Session 5: Science blogs and online forums as teaching tools</title>
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        <![CDATA[Martin Fenner - Martin Fenner, Oliver Obst and Jeff Marlow We will discuss the role that science blogs and online forums are having in teaching science today. In a panel discussion we will look at practical examples and examine their potential as well]]>
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      <title>Judges wanted!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - The "Institute of Ideas":www.instituteofideas.com/ is looking for scientists and other clever people to act as judges for their next "Debating Matters":http://www.debatingmatters.com/ competition. The event sees students unleashing their debating skills in competition with other schools, while a panel of adult]]>
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