Big Tees
An initiative to develop high-quality education and skills, improve business competitiveness and enhance the quality of life for local people in the North-east by exploiting information age...
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Cisco kids
The University of Edinburgh is running the first UK-based Cisco Networking Academy Programme, a joint venture between Internet hardware maker Cisco Systems and the education sector. The university's...
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Teaching ideas on web
A project to establish a "virtual" reading group on learning and teaching in higher education has won a grant from the Staff and Educational Development Association. The project, managed by Paul...
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Grades of failure
Should students be given grades or just marked as pass or fail? A researcher at Brighton University has tested this question on two groups of students and found that withholding grades appears to...
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Alladin's lamp
The Alladin project - autonomous language learning in art and design using interactive networks - has won Pounds 0,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Department of...
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Credit for foreign study
Coventry University's educational development unit is working on ways to give ethnic minority women more opportunities to study. The idea is to develop IT skills and encourage women with...
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Joint pastoral care
Leeds University has set up a centre for joint honours degrees and is recruiting part-time personal tutors from teaching departments to help with pastoral care. The university said the aim of the...
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Oxford recruiting drive
Oxford University is to send promotional videos to about 4,000 secondary schools, further education and sixth-form colleges in a drive to recruit more state-sector pupils. The ten-minute video...
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Star Turn
Alison Utley discovers how a lecturing job in the United States relaxed the style of an international communications expert "There's a reading list with websites but it's out of date," Phil Taylor...
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The staff to lean on
Guilty of over-mothering your students or inclined more towards healthy neglect? Can supervisors ever hope to get it right, asks Sally Brown Essays have their place, but give students a dissertation...
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Research bids invited for slice of Pounds 600m
Medical charity the Wellcome Trust and research councils this week invited universities to bid for equipment, buildings and refurbishment from a Pounds 600 million joint government-trust fund. The...
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Bursar admits blunder
Freshers at an Oxford college have been told they will be shut out of their rooms if they fail to pay the Pounds 1,000 tuition fee a week before term starts. They must also provide a financial...
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Natfhe gears up for strike on contracts
Strike action in further education colleges looked imminent this week as branches of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe voted overwhelmingly against accepting a draft deal with employers...
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Mutiny forces Lesotho v-c to flee campus
The vice-chancellor of the National University of Lesotho and more than 60 expatriate families living on campus fled the country under South African army escort at the height of last week's abortive...
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A martyr to everydayness
An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology - Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History