Our financial wizards have found too many ways of acquiring money without paying for it with real resources. It is perhaps not a coincidence that, as financial recession began to bite, we had already consumed all the resources our planet can produce this year.
Entries from September 2008
Financial Crisis - a problem of point of view?
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Cloisters Magazine
Tags: bank·credit crunch·crisis·economics·finance·Legum·New Economics Foundation·resources
The Guardian: How to Write Journalism
September 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Journalism
The Guardian is producing a series of booklets this week all about writing. Today’s is about journalism, and it contains a good few gems worth reading. This will interest anyone thinking of taking up our course, Understanding Journalism.
The Guardian: How to write Journalism
Tags: Journalism·writing
Is College Necessary? - Tutors Are.
September 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Technology in Learning
Trent Batson of Campus Technology has raised the question: “Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?” The point being that, when we have so much technology in our homes that libraries, art galleries and other institutional places have difficulty competing, do people need to attend a college to get an education?
Well, it seems that most [...]
Tags: home·learning·online·student·teacher·technology·tutor
Cloisters 21 Now Available
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Anthropology and Archaeology, Cloisters Magazine, NCS
Cloisters 21, the latest edition of our magazine is out now. It is available as an online electronic magazine at http://issuu.com/cloisters/docs/cloisters21. You can read it there in comfort and style.
Post your comments on the new magazine here, and let us know if you have any ideas for future articles.
Tags: Anthropology and Archaeology·Cloisters Magazine·NCS News