It's an anti-national thing
A national teaching certificate could soon be compulsory for lecturers, but controversy surrounds the issue. Alison Utley finds academics sceptical Most academics reject the idea of a national...
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Art of humour
A David Starkey lecture is combative, outspoken, controversial and provocative, reports Alan Thomson David Starkey did stand-up comedy as a Cambridge undergraduate and appears to have lost little of...
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Limit your overheads
Teaching is being professionalised in some universities, reports Olga Wojtas Few skills may seem more basic than those needed to use an overhead projector, but beware. "It's a common mistake to put...
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Appointments
The Quality Assurance Agency John Randall, former director of professional standards and development at the Law Society, has been appointed chief executive. The following have been appointed to five...
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Learn to mark it up
What is the best way to promote good teaching? Why, promoting academics who are good at it, of course, says Ray Cowell How to make sure that the brightest and best staff think of a career focused on...
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New term, new teaching
A national teaching certificate could soon be compulsory for lecturers, but controversy surrounds the issue. David Baume argues for a cultural change What would persuade universities to put energy...
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Play the smart card
Students demand a uniform standard of teaching, says Peter McCaffery Variable teaching quality is frequently singled out as one of students' main concerns. They consider that their needs are given...
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Get back on course
Mantz Yorke on how to make students' days more than a dull daze In a study which I am leading in the northwest nearly 40 per cent of full-time students who withdrew from their studies in 1994/95...
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Link-ups aim to cheer up the maze of confusion
Harriet Swain on how to make students' days more than a dull daze Enrolment day at Oxford Brookes University holds no happy memories for Julie Corbin. "It was horrible,'' she said. "You had to turn...
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Here's looking at you, kid
Video conferencing will make good teaching bad and bad teaching worse, argue Peter Cope and Sally Brown Contrary to what we are frequently told, video-links that aim to reproduce conventional...
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Time to bring back the chalk to the talk-face
Richard Marquiss would like to pull the plug on the overhead projector I recently attended a research presentation where I became rapidly mesmerised by the use made by the presenter of our old friend...
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Interview
Huw Richards talks to Andrew Dilnot about next Wednesday's Budget - Labour's first since 1979. It wasn't until the 1970s that serious political attention started to focus on tax and public finance. "...
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Awards
American Society for Nutritional Sciences The Lederle Award in Human Nutrition has been conferred on John Scott, professor in the department of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Scott...
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Fellowships
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The following were awarded senior fellowships by the council: Michael Ashfold, professor in the school of chemistry at the University of Bristol;...
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Patron of the skills arsenal
For 15 years Richard Layard has believed that tackling unemployment meant weaning the long-term jobless off the benefit culture. Now he has a chance to put some flesh on the bones of his theory...