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InterNICHE Co-ordinator
Nick Jukes
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Alternatives in Education Video
new approaches for a new millennium
This award-winning 33-minute video
gives a comprehensive overview of the use of alternatives in education
and features a selection of the best products in use today. Covering nerve
and muscle physiology, pharmacology, surgery, anatomy and animal handling,
InterNICHE interviews university teachers who have themselves developed
or implemented the products in their curriculum. The alternatives are demonstrated
by the teachers, and students give their feedback.
Suitable for teachers and students of biological science, veterinary
and human medicine, for ethics committees and legislators.
Read the press release from
the video痴 launch in 1999.
Thanks to our sponsors.
Alternatives in Education has been translated into the following
languages:
Croatian, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese,
Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. It will soon
be available in Arabic, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian,
Slovenian and Turkish.
It is available in PAL (European format) and NTSC (US format).
To order a copy, please contact
the InterNICHE Co-ordinator or
the relevant InterNICHE national
contact.
The Alternatives in Education video will soon be downloadable from
this site
International launch of new life science video
Alternatives in Education - new approaches for a new millennium
A ground-breaking
video featuring state-of-the-art alternatives to animal experiments
is today launched worldwide by the humane education network EuroNICHE
(1).
University teachers who have newly developed or use multimedia
computer software and other products and approaches (2) demonstrate
their efficacy and pedagogic advantages (3) over traditional harmful
animal use (4). From anatomy to physiology, surgery to pharmacology,
the film samples classical experiments where conventional animal
use has been replaced by a range of progressive alternative methods.
In the current approach to the new academic year, the 33-minute
multi-language film (5) is being shown and distributed across Europe,
the US, Australia and Japan to teachers and students of biological
science, veterinary and human medicine, and to ethics committees,
legislators and animal protection groups (6).
Co-ordinator of EuroNICHE, Nick Jukes, said today,
"
The life sciences are undergoing a radical change as recent developments
in technology offer new and exciting ways to gain the skills and
knowledge required for the professions. Ethical and financial concerns
have also prompted a re-assessment of conventional practice. 'Alternatives'
are now becoming the norm."
For cost and distribution, see (7) below.
Notes for editors:
(1). 'Alternatives in Education - new approaches for a new millennium'.
EuroNICHE - the European Network of Individuals and Campaigns for
Humane Education - is a non-profit charitable network of students
and teachers with contacts in over 20 European countries, the US,
Australia and Japan. Working with teachers to introduce alternatives
to harmful animal use and with students to support freedom of conscience.
A full list of national contacts is available.
(2). Products featured include computer simulation and learning
packages, computer-linked human self-testing apparatus, waste organ
surgical training apparatus, high-resolution video and a veterinary
training model. Full details of the products and producers are
available. Further alternative approaches for practical work requiring
animal tissue are covered in the film with the sourcing and use
of 'naturally-dead' or euthanised animals, and clinical practice.
(3). At least 29 published academic studies evaluating the effectiveness
of alternative methods have found that students using alternatives
perform at least as well as those using animals.
(4). Worldwide, tens of millions of animals are killed each year
for dissection and harmed during experimentation within education.
Many students face academic and psychological penalty for objecting
to compulsory harmful animal use but recent legislation and legal
challenges have often found in favour of students' rights and the
use of alternatives.
(5). The film is currently available in (a number of languages)
(6). It has been shown pre-launch at several national-level scientific
conferences and will be shown at the forthcoming 3rd World Congress
on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (Bologna, 29
August - 2 September 1999).
(7). Cost - Western Europe: ｣12 (｣8 concessions), Eastern Europe:
｣6 (｣4), US: $20 ($15), Australia: A$30 ($20), Other: contact EuroNICHE.
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