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he Education Conversations are aimed at encouraging our nation to talk, as well as to create a space for on‐going debate and discussion through which diverse voices can be heard. The conversations will focus on what works and how we can, collectively, advance the agenda for an improved public education system.

Winners of a competition last year held by Mozilla, with $2 million from the MacArthur Foundation, to recognize the best digital badge systems.

"As hyperbolic as it may sound, academic publishing is the curator and guardian of the accumulated scientific knowledge of the human race, 1600 to present. It is also a cornerstone of modern science, preferentially selecting well-executed research through the peer review process. However, academic libraries are facing decreasing budgets, and even highly ranked universities are having to cut back on journal subscriptions. Since these subscriptions account for up to 75 percent of publishers' revenues, the entire system is feeling the pressure of the economic crisis..."

This is an example of where the UCT CMS system has been used in a much more dynamic way. The colours are a bit dull (but probably fitting for Criminology) but we can make it more exciting. Look at the section under highlights - the Summer School blog and other external sites can go there. We can also investigate using 'follow us on Twitter' or having a live COL Twitter feed, with daily updates, depending on the projects that are running at a particular time e.g. Summer School in Jan, Pace in Fed, Third term around the time of winter and summer school, etc. More importantly, PACE, Summer School, etc can have their own navigation bar (where you see 'MERL', 'Physical Security' and so forth on this site) with more info about them than the current overview from Continuing Ed provides and we can also link to this extended info from there.

not bad but I still find it rather dull, I am afraid. Also I don't think I can live the CHED salmon pink colour coding... Someone told me that UCT ICTS is going over to wordpress???????? but Jenny never mentioned anything?