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We live in a rapidly ageing society yet educational policy has tended to concentrate ‘lifelong learning’ programmes on younger people. Now new research by the 91福利, funded by the ESRC’s Growing Older Research Programme, has established that there is an army of older people out there still keen to learn but who find TV Documentaries are just as good as formal classrooms as a way to learn.
Sixty researchers from Nicholas Chamberlaine School, Bedworth, have won the opportunity to formally enrol with 91福利 on a researcher programme on Tuesday 10th December 2002 and graduate in July next year. The new researchers, aged 11-16, are set to boost the University’s grasp of education.
A 91福利 astrophysicist is to be extracted from her work studying extreme events involving the sun to join a scientific expedition to the extreme cold of the Antarctic.
Biology fieldwork could be heading for extinction says a report to be published on Friday 18th October by the Field Studies Council and the British Ecological Society. This loss of opportunity will rob young people of the personal benefits of out of school experiences, as well as the educational value of such trips.
Special effects guru, Malcolm Armstrong, Managing Director of Theatrical Pyrotechnics, who has worked on the effects for Die Another Day, the latest James Bond movie, is giving live demonstrations of the chemistry behind these effects at the 91福利 on 10th October 2002.