Students receive a stipend and have many program expenses paid. 13 SPUR project descriptions are listed at the site, along with application information. Applications are due by February 28, 1997. The Community Learning Network, provided by the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a K-12 pointer site with over 1,200 links to educational resources. Resources are arranged in 10 major categories, including curricular resources, instructional materials, mailing lists, professional development, and school home pages, among others.
Sites are automatically filtered and then further distilled by a team of editors.
This allows Argos to reduce the researchers' effort to locate quality materials on the ancient and medieval world. From the Argos main page additional links to other authoritative sites on related topics are provided. A drawback of this site is that it must be searched, which obscures the depth of its content and places the burden on users to articulate their needs instead of encouraging the exploration of the gathered resources. At present the scope is limited to monographic English language works published between 1945 and 1996. Note that the bibliography contains no items published by or under the auspices of the U.N. itself at this time.