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Latest UK news
Individual learning accounts frozen Individual learning accounts have been suspended immediately as police are called in to investigate allegations of fraud. They already faced phasing out next month...
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From today's UK papers
First human embryo cloned American scientists claimed yesterday to have cloned the first human embryo, spreading deep alarm among pro-life groups. Daily Telegraph , Times , Daily Mail , Financial...
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Blair plans to create elite research tier
Prime minister Tony Blair is behind a plan to create an elite tier of research universities in the biggest shake-up of higher education in a decade. The government's plan would lead to the...
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For the record
12 centres to focus on innovation for industry Science minister Lord Sainsbury will launch 12 new research centres in a £120 million collaboration between the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
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AWARDS AND PRIZES Institute of Physics The 2002 Awards have been made to 16 individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development, management, understanding and communication of...
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Letters: Awaiting scandal?
John Hall's defence of governance structures in statutory corporations (Letters, THES , November 16) was addressed in the paper I gave at the recent Universities UK/ Society for Research in Higher...
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Why I think universities should ditch teaching
The degree course used to strike me as a contract. They want to learn. We want to teach. Money is exchanged for wisdom imparted. In fact, in America this ancient symbiosis has become so explicitly...
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A long way to utopia
How can young academics have ideals in our cost-obsessed culture? asks Matthew Watson. My department scored full marks in its Quality Assurance Agency assessment last week so, unlike many of my peers...
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Just 'apply', don't 'understand'
Guidelines now tell academics which words to use, writes Adamantios Diamantopoulos. The recent article by Dennis Hayes in The THES ("Tongues truly tied", October 28) made a passionate plea for...
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Doctors tap into wireless revolution
Pat Leon discovers why the electronic classroom is the biggest thing since chalk. Owen Epstein believes the wireless keyboards balanced precariously on his medical students' knees are the "biggest...
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Agony aunt
Q : I'd like to get my students to help one another more. I've heard of Pals. What does is stand for and how does it work? A : Pals stands for peer-assisted learning strategies and can take many...
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Their failure is not always your failure
If your students do not do as well as expected in exams, don't fret, it's probably not your fault, says Mark Griffiths. Every year there are debates about the impact that "good teaching" has on exam...
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Ageing issues are not age old
Four research councils are getting together to meet the complex challenge posed by a longer-living population. Terry Philpot reports. Whatever the challenges that will face practitioners and policy-...
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Ministers to tackle college funding bureaucracy
Ministers and funding chiefs have undertaken to tackle crippling bureaucracy and an audit burden that is overwhelming further education colleges. John Harwood, chief executive of the Learning and...