NVQs suffer a skills blow
NEARLY 40 per cent of assessors of national vocational qualifications admit to passing sub-standard students, according to a survey out this week. The finding is a big blow to the Government's...
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Europeans protect university tradition
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. EUROPEAN rectors have lent their support to a declaration on the future of Europe's...
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Room to think
Paul Fuller urges universities to put research space management into their strategic plan. Whether universities are looking to establish a research base or searching for ways to develop their...
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And the first prize goes to...teaching
The National Teaching Fellowships Scheme is shortly to award its first 20 prizes. But, as Jennifer Currie reports, the winners see the awards less as personal gain than as a tribute to their...
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Students on the game
A Barclays Bank survey on student debt looked at how youngsters cope with little money. For some, David Barrett finds, the answer lies in prostitution CHILDREN and sex are a volatile mixture. Having...
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Collective failure of the imagination
Martin Gandoff and Martin Hulse argue that universities are not equipping students with an understanding of how the IT revolution is transforming business and their futures We are not educating our...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION COMMISSION www.lic.gov.uk Call for research...
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Glasgow Media Group Reader Volume Two - Glasgow Media Group Reader Volume One
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Ashdown commits party to science budget boost
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
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A challenge to the Hera antagonists
Temperate criticism is not usually the hallmark of Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the college lecturers' union. When Jill Jones and Alan Carr (THES letters, June 13) argue that "...
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Lang to boost Scots training links
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, plans to boost training links between further education colleges and local companies as part of Scotland's strategy following the White Paper on business...
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Stubbing out the truth
As the extent of British science's collusion with the tobacco giants becomes clear, American medic Stanton Glantz tells of his battle for academic freedom and the right to publish secret documents...
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Japanese way of the world
Becoming World Class
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France plays drugs catch-up
Britain's success in exploiting academic research in biotechnology attracted envy across the Channel a few years ago, where the head of French chemical giant Rhone-Poulence decided it was time to...
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Pining for the union halls
The Cultural Front