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The Dearing report (. ac.uk/educol/ ncihe/) has provoked a number of online discussions and responses. The Association for Learning Technology's lively one-day virtual conference is now read-only at cube.bioc. liv.ac.uk:8080/5/. Debate continues on Mailbase lists including ucisa-dearing, staff-development and seda, at ac.uk.

There are reactions from the Higher Education Funding Council for England ( dearing.htm), the National Union of Students (. html) and the Staff and Educational Development Association (. demon.co.uk/ ncihe.html).

Others are listed at misc/dearing_responses.html.

Even the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Waterloo Daily Bulletin, Ontario, Canada noted the Dearing report ( bulletin/1997/jul/24th.html). The 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Manchester has responded at rylibweb. man.ac.uk/dearing.html.