Teacher trainers held to account
Vice-chancellors are worried about plans to hold university teacher training departments responsible for the classroom performance of new teachers. Proposals for a quality framework for teacher...
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Ulster bids to raise Pounds 70 million
Ulster University is hoping to capitalise on international sympathy for Northern Ireland with a bid to raise Pounds 70 million to help tackle social issues and promote economic regeneration. The...
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Mersey's new beat
About 60 students from all over the world attended the first jazz summer school at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts this year. Jazz began a seven-week programme of international summer...
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Fiery temptation
Staff at Ulster University showed remarkable restraint this week as more than 200 of the world's leading fire safety experts arrived in Belfast for the first international symposium on human...
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Wise guy
Academics may be bright, but how many are wise? Only one, according to the Council of Europe. Antonio La Pergola, professor of law in Padua and Bologna and chairman of the Venice Commission on...
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Prince of brains
We don't know which of the royals got the looks, but it seems from a newspaper report this week that Prince William got the brains. It reports that he is the cleverest-ever Windsor (a little like...
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Nurse for a day
Godliness can lead to a tranquil and placid existence even before the next life, if the experience of Ian Markham, professor of theology and public life at Liverpool Hope University College, is...
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Star wars
Yet more alleged skulduggery in the five-year saga over Cambridge University's plans to floodlight its sports ground against the wishes of local university astronomers - and residents - who insist...
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Doubting Thomas
The defection of Tom Wilson, former Association of University Teachers assistant general secretary, to Natfhe threatened problems for the Bett committee, set up to discuss academic pay and conditions...
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Unlawful conduct
Alumna to be proud of number 187 makes her second appearance in these columns on being sentenced to 15 months in the female unit of a men's jail in Aberdeen. It is one thing for a law graduate to go...
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Outrage at restructure for Queen's
More than 100 academics at Queen's University, Belfast have severely criticised a radical re-structuring plan and urged vice- chancellor George Bain to reconsider it. In a joint letter, they said it...
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Tiny team keeps tabs on the big spenders
Has the Higher Education Funding Council for England the power and money for the job, Phil Baty asks JUST seven auditors and two support staff at the Higher Education Funding Council for England are...
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Cash help for young luvvies
THE government is to launch a new support scheme for dance and drama students to resolve a recruitment crisis. A funding package expected to provide students at independent dance and drama schools...
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Childcare boost for student parents
Welsh further and higher education institutions are being urged to pay more attention to childcare as part of government moves to reduce the number of people claiming benefits. The organisation...
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Hope wings eternal for elderly exiles
The Wing Hong (Eternal Hope) Chinese centre in Glasgow is packed. Groups of elderly people are chatting to one another, a number of them keeping an eye on the elaborate preparations for lunch. Some...