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Introduction
Despite all the daft errors because I'm too being doing to double check everything, I'm rather pedantic over good English. My wife's actually better at punctuation than me but I do have an 'A' level in English Language 
Like a lot of people in my generation, "the 3 R's" - Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic (*blinks*), were and are very important. Nowadays, though I suspect that while it may be improving, the spelling, grammar and maths of the current generation is so bad I could cry. In the club 18-30 range, from what I've seen, even the university graduates are illiterate.
Oh yes, the spelling and grammar of one such illuminati was so bad even my seven daughter does better! All I could do was hang my head in shame that the once great British institute is handing out 2:1 honours for such trash.
And education goes corporate... !
As is heavily lamented by a number of my lecturer friends, the colleges and universities no longer have 'students', they have 'clients'. Forget innovation and quality training, it's all about bums on seats, something a number of American college grads also relate to me. It's no longer "what is the best course we can offer" but "which course generates the greatest revenue"
Have to say, it makes me sick!
Anyway ...
What better course for information than universities themselves. There are countless thousands all over the globe and most of them have massive resources shared on-line.
Below are just a few. Needless to say many more will follow...
- Okanagon University College - Librarian's bookmarks
- Research Shopper (appeared down last I looked)
- NUA Education archives
- eMarketer reports that 70 percent of US college students use their campus libraries' website for some of their assignments.
- Big rise in traffic to education websites
New data from Nielsen-Netratings indicates that traffic to education and university websites in the US rose by 34 percent for the week ending July 14 (2002).
