University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) announces Ephorus partnership

(PRWEB UK) 24 January 2014

London, UK: The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), the leading IT service provider to the UK education sector, and Ephorus, the Dutch-based provider of plagiarism prevention, today announced a new strategic partnership.

The partnership will enable customers of ULCC's Hosted Moodle Service to seamlessly access the full range of Ephorus plagiarism prevention services, directly from within their virtual learning environment.

'As one of the largest providers of hosted Moodle services to the UK education sector, we are excited about our partnership with Ephorus. It will allow us to offer an alternative plagiarism prevention solution to our 150+ HE & FE customers across the UK. In doing so we are not only offering a broader choice but we can also help for customer feedback to be incorporated into future Ephorus software releases' said Richard Maccabee, Director of ULCC.

Joep Chappin, Ephorus founder said: ‘We are excited to partner with ULCC. Ephorus, just like ULCC, has an educational philosophy, therefore we fit together perfectly. Ephorus believes that educational services must be open, flexible and easily fit with existing systems. By working with ULCC we will benefit from its reach in the UK education market and hope to drive collaborative development of the Ephorus plagiarism prevention software.'

Ephorus plagiarism prevention is easy to use. Integrated in Moodle, Ephorus checks every essay and thesis automatically, comparing student submissions with billions of sources on the Internet and papers, previously submitted at your institution. While improving the quality of education, Ephorus saves you time and reassures you that your students are doing their own work.

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About ULCC
Established in 1968, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has evolved into a highly respected and innovative IT service provider within the academic and not-for-profit sector. It now supports Moodle for over 2.4 million registered users across 150 Further and Higher Education institutions in the UK, including Manchester Metropolitan University, King’s College and the University of London International Academy.

About Ephorus
Ephorus was founded in 2003 by two former teachers from the Netherlands. They developed a web based service for plagiarism prevention. Today more than 5,000 schools and universities use Ephorus, making Ephorus the market leader in Europe. Ephorus checks tens of thousands of documents from over 32 different countries every day. Customers include University of Copenhagen, University of Bern, Cambridge Regional College and Loughborough University.

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University of New England Professor to Consult with United Nations Support Mission in Libya

Biddeford, Maine (PRWEB) January 24, 2014

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of New England, has been invited by the United Nations to consult with its Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on areas pertaining to regional and tribal politics, national dialogue and reconciliation three years after the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi from power.

UNSMIL is a special political mission established in 2011 by the UN Security Council at the request of the Libyan authorities following six months of armed conflict to support the country's new transitional authorities in their post-conflict efforts; its activities are guided by the principle of national ownership. Headquartered in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, with offices in Benghazi and Sabha, UNSMIL’s 205 national and international staff members provide support in political affairs, human rights, transitional justice, mine action, demobilization, development, women empowerment, public information and communication.

Ahmida will travel to Libya at the close of UNE’s spring semester and again in fall 2014 to provide cultural and scholarly insight on Libyan regional and tribal politics, including identifying the main tribal groups in the country, their leadership structures, key figures, and social reach and political influence. Ahmida will lead sessions with UNSMIL members in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata, as well as other designated cities. He will also chair an international conference on Transitional Justice, Truth and National Reconciliation in Tripoli on May 20-22, 2014.

This is Ahmida’s third UN invitation. He was one of five scholars invited to speak to the UN Security Council on Conflict Resolution in Africa on June 7, 2004, and was one of six scholars commissioned to assess the role and the performance of the United Nations Developmental Program in four Arab countries in early 2008.

Born in Libya and educated at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt and the University of Washington in Seattle, Ahmida specializes in political theory, comparative politics and historical sociology of power, agency and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, especially modern Libya. He has published major articles in Critique, Arab Future and International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies and authored or edited several books, including "Bridges Across the Sahara: Social Economic and Cultural Impact of the Trans-Sahara Trade during the 19th and 20 Centuries," in 2009. His 2005 book, "Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya" (Routledge Press), was also translated and issued in Italian and most recently in 2009 in Arabic by the Center of Arab Unity Studies, Beirut.

For more information, visit http://www.une.edu.

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