My worst nightmare
In the 1980s, the Open University wanted to improve students' learning from television. Viewing sessions with tons of exercises based on the video were arranged nationally and I was put in charge of...
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Think of yourself as an enabler
The Disability Discrimination Act has concentrated attention on the needs of disabled students, but while managers in finance and estates departments shake their heads over the costs and logistics of...
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Department audit
Hilary Robinson, head of school, gives the lowdown on art and design at the University of Ulster * Total number of academic staff: 75 (plus three new permanent appointees about to start). * Number of...
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Business schools adjust to markets
UK business schools are refocusing their work and bringing new staff on board to help ring the changes. Aston University's business school is among those revamping its work with a two-year...
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Who got that job?
Lecturer in law, School of Arts Department of Law, Surrey University Job advertised in The Times Higher , February 6, 2004 The laughter and conversation that reverberate through the corridors of the...
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Glasgow pursues economic and urban growth
Glasgow University is recruiting eight academic staff, including two professors, for its departments of economics and urban studies and will also make several senior appointments in psychology. The...
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Pair may undercut pack with £2,000 fee
Two universities are considering charging top-up fees of less than £3,000 a year in a move that would shatter the national consensus that all institutions will inevitably charge the maximum. Leeds...
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Today's news
Cheer for researchers as tax burden is removed Britain’s universities were yesterday celebrating the decision to scrap a tax they said had reduced their chances of turning scientific discoveries into...
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Laurie Taylor column
The new student complaints watchdog - the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education - has paid compensation to students in all of the appeals it has so far upheld. Times Higher, November 26 THE...
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Leader: Testing times for low-fee strategy
By this time next week, the comfortable assumption that any competition in the fast-approaching higher education market would be confined to bursaries and scholarships may have been shattered. Leeds...
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Leader: Focus to save subjects
The hue and cry over the closure of chemistry departments reached such a pitch this week that the Government was forced to bring forward its announcement on subjects of national strategic...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 1
Alan Bennett's play The History Boys is superbly entertaining but it has a serious core. The new teacher is recruited to show his history class how to cheat the examiner. In a painfully honest...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 2
Your survey "Caught in a vicious cycle of declining standards" (November 19) presents evidence of widespread dumbing down in academia. There is reason to believe, however, that falling standards are...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 3
Peter Williams argues (Soapbox, November 26) that there cannot have been any lowering of academic standards in universities because they would risk losing their reputations when we all got to know...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 4
A lot of academics would agree with Peter Williams that people should be given the opportunity to try to secure higher qualifications. But institutions such as ours that take the risk and accept...