Renaissance will follow reform in 21st century
As Unesco attempts to create a new order for higher education, Federico Mayor explains why it is needed When Unesco began the process leading up to next week's World Conference on Higher Education in...
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Access: an unhealthy obsession
Instead of seizing lifelong learning and developing a stimulating vision for an inclusive, interactive yet excellent higher education system, we seem to be driving down a narrow road obsessed with...
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Minority myths
It was correctly reported that the Teacher Training Agency's published performance profiles on initial teacher training are already out of date (THES, September 25). Unfortunately this was not taken...
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Minority myths
Anthea Millett ("Black to the future in the classroom", THES, September 25), seems to perpetuate three myths that are part of the problem in increasing the number of people from ethnic minorities in...
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Minority myths
For The THES to ask whether colleges should accept students with lower A-level scores to boost the numbers of black teachers is an insult to black and ethnic minority teachers, since available...
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In short ...
The option of arbitration is not, as Dennis Farrington describes it, "yet another litigious procedure" (Letters, THES, September 18), but a genuine alternative to the combative, slow and costly legal...
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In short ...
We know league tables are here to stay (THES, September 25). They sell newspapers and books. They allow education editors to support articles with some "evidence". They are the creation of...
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I do not deny the need for modules such as "Varieties of speaking and writing" developed at Anglia Polytechnic University ("Teach students how to communicate", THES, September 18), but I doubt they...
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Balancing act
As the debate surrounding the targeting of more than 100 staff for severance/early retirement at Queen's University of Belfast continues to gather momentum, there are two issues that have...
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Literary cash and canons
In the Booker prize, literature, money and PR merge. Judge Valentine Cunningham discusses how the prize shapes our study of fiction The shortlist for the 30th Booker prize is out. After 124 novels,...
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Support, don't just report
The Teacher Training Agency will survive only if it starts being nicer to institutions, says Mike Newby Flicking through the new national performance tables of teacher training colleges, I wondered...
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Beijing
The Chinese government has set up two funds to help rebuild flood-damaged universities, colleges and schools and aid the 8.5 million students affected by floods, which hit the country this summer....
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Iqaluit, North West Territories
An Arctic university is being planned by the Arctic Council, a two-year-old group made up of Canada, the United States, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia and Finland. The council...
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Bologna
The University of Bologna has set up a "college of excellence" for the 30 most outstanding first-year students each year. The Villa Guastavillani, set in the hills overlooking Bologna, will house an...
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Launch pad
At next week's UK Technology Week in Earl's Court, London, Sheffield Hallam University is launching a masters degree aimed at computer professionals. The MSc Enterprise Network Management course will...