Deliver us from quality police
The latest wheeze from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education is, as the Financial Times reported recently, to create "an elite corps of highly trained and well-paid examinersI as part of...
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Deliver us from quality police
In its consultation document on the future of the national quality assurance system, the Quality Assurance Agency makes the constitutional position of external examiners transparent. For this it...
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An open letter to David Melville
Dear David, Soon after your appointment as chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, we discussed university/college relationships. You expressed your belief in the identity and...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Film crews live in an en suite world ... and there is nothing en suite about Derwent Bridge bunkhouse. It is an apt end to a frustrating day. We had hoped to shoot a scene at a rather...
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Puzzle to set brains whirring
HOW could we manage without the future? What would happen to the thriving community of prognosticators and scenario spinners? Policy gurus and politicians thrive on the future, journalists are at...
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A good English play on Lorca's words
To have two plays running simultaneously in London is an achievement accomplished by few - the likes of Alan Ayckbourn, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Gwynne Edwards. If the least recognisable of those...
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Budding architects face course rebuild
A shake-up of architecture education could mean that students gain a stand-alone honours degree after three years instead of the conventional seven years. The standard architecture degree consists of...
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'Strut your stuff,' Scots are urged
WHAT is the future of English studies in a devolved Scotland? Academics and students debated the prospects at a St Andrews University conference organised by Robert Crawford of its school of English...
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Scientists call for five-year RAE cycle
THE research assessment exercise should be undertaken every five, not four years, says the pressure group Save British Science. This would give adequate funding stability to help bridge gaps in more...
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Masterly dispute
A SET of minimum standards to check quality in the burgeoning market for the masters of business administration qualification will be launched by the Association of Business Schools in May. The move...
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Staff need experience
COLLEGES should find more work experience for lecturers, according to a report from the Further Education Development Agency. The report, Learning with Business, said that staff secondments to...
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Lack of drive identified
SMALL businesses say that graduates "lack motivation and drive", according to research from London's Training and Enterprise Council. Almost 90 per cent of London's small and medium-sized enterprises...
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Cash for business ties
Ten universities in Yorkshire and Humberside have clinched a deal worth more than Pounds 10 million as part of a joint bid for European Union business support. Combined with money raised locally,...
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It's good to win
NAPIER University has won a Pounds 48,000 BT University Development Award for its work towards quantifying students' part-time work into accredited units of degree courses. Work such as part-time bar...
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TV-struck president aims for political stage
Harriet Swain looks at the candidates vying to be president at next week's NUS conference Things have happened around Douglas Trainer. His election as president of the National Union of Students in...