The mile is no longer a mile (2 of 2)
Neil Hopkins attributes the continuous improvement in A-level grades to better training. I hope that it is delivered as a supplement to education: my fear is that it is seen as a substitute for it....
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Caring hearts and minds (1 of 2)
Anthea Bain's letter ("No degrees in compassion", 18 August) is yet another depressing diatribe extolling the "good old days" of nursing and demonising current students and newly qualified nurses....
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Caring hearts and minds (2 of 2)
Retired nurses harking back to an imagined golden age of nursing that coincided with their youth need to read some history. The 1960s and 1970s saw episodes of appalling abuse and neglect committed...
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Fair is howl and howl is fair
In response to Katie Alcock's and Alice Bell's wide-ranging discussion of "exam howlers" (Opinion, 11 August), here is a sonnet on the subject (warning: the following poem contains real howlers):I...
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Film review: One Day
Will Brooker on a skilful adaptation that shows how in the midst of life, love and laughter we are in death
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TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars
The mysteries of the star-spangled firmament are endlessly fascinating to us, says Gary Day
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Erol Erduran, 1932-2011
A pioneering educator, teaching at all levels, Erol Erduran played an instrumental role in the foundation of the first Turkish Cypriot university in Northern Cyprus.Throughout his career, he was...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of LiverpoolAnger managementGetting angry at work may not usually be the route to a promotion, but research suggests that in one industry it is a vital part of getting the job done. The...
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Odds and quads
In the gruesome or grimly comic medieval Dance of Death, skeletons or decaying corpses are depicted rounding up the living.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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25 August 2011
Anarchy in the UK - With the collapse of the old fees regime, confusion reigns across the land
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Will students be living the Hi-de-Hi life at Pontins?
Universities employ expensive pro vice-chancellors to oversee the “student experience” and spend hundreds of hours poring over survey results on student satisfaction.
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A fifth of graduate workers earn less than school-leavers
One in five graduates earn less than the average worker educated to A-level standard, new figures show.
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Annual list highlights cultural chasm between scholars and students
They are the internet generation that only remember the presidency of one George Bush and consider dial-up internet “sooooooo last century”.