Can a decline in Earth Science Education and research be averted by networking, specialist centres and hybrid departments? |
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收稿时间: | 12 February 1998 |
修稿时间: | 13 March 1998 |
Can a decline in Earth Science Education and research be averted by networking,specialist centres and hybrid departments? |
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Authors: | JD Kramers |
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Institution: | a Isotope Geology Group, BENEFRI Department of Earth Sciences, Erlachstrasse 9a, 3012 Bern, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | University earth science departments are under threat in southern Africa, as in the rest of the world. It is argued here that a good quality and broad based Earth Science Education can be maintained in southern African universities either by networking, or by maintaining departments staffed by a local core of academics, whose teaching is supplemented by block courses conducted by staff from specialised centres also serving industry. These centres should play a vital part in graduate research and maintain research links with the core staff. Positioned between industry and universities, they could promote links between both. |
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