How to Compile a portfolio
WHAT. In the final part ofour four-part series on key skills, Peter Burke and Bob Rainbow look at methods of tracking students' achievements using portfolios WHY. Portfolios help students hone their...
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Star Turn
Harriet Swain sits in on a philosopher who ensures he is never a lone lecturer Before joining the University of East Anglia, Rupert Read, director of philosophy of literature, used to be more daring...
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Sales pitch for Scots export
Industry has teamed up with higher education north of the border to market its distance-teaching skills worldwide. Olga Wojtas reports Scottish Knowledge, a unique venture to export Scotland's...
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Devolution may make SHEFC redundant
Scottish university leaders are questioning whether the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council should continue to exist under a devolved parliament. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education...
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Helen Liddell
* Scottish education minister Helen Liddell is today set to give institutions a new funding boost. In her keynote address to the Coshep forum, Mrs Liddell will stress the sector's importance in...
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HE lacks cash to reinvest
Universities and other higher education institutions are still struggling - and in 36 cases, failing - to make ends meet, according to figures from the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Israeli students protest over fees
Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israeli students locked the gates of their universities and took to the streets in a wave of demonstrations this week, demanding that the government halve tuition fees from 10,...
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Victory for animal rights
Animal rights campaigners have won the right to check academics' proposals for experiments before they can take place. But a row is brewing over exactly how much information they will be able to...
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Attempts to teach all classes
Higher education is starting to target students from low-income groups. Maggie Woodrow reports Higher-income groups still dominate higher education. While a third of over-18s now participates overall...
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Why I think students know nothing about anything
Will Macdonald, A producer with the independent production company Ginger Television and Chris Evans's stooge on the Channel Four programme TFI Friday, presented a new student quiz, Carry on Campus,...
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Graduates on wards
The next generation of nurses will need better qualifications as well as more pay, says Sue Howard Debate about the move of nursing towards an all-graduate profession has gained momentum in recent...
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