Education secretary Gillian Shephard also spoke at the conference, and outlined five challenges for further education in the future. It must: manage growth within available funding by increasing...
standards in taught masters courses may be suffering because of the boom in demand. Peter Knight, senior lecturer in the educational research department at Lancaster University, says more research is...
Students and lecturers at the University of Nairobi have called on the British government to bring in Scotland Yard detectives to investigate the death of a student leader which has sparked off...
A Labour government would require further education lecturers to get teaching qualifications within a specified period after entering the profession, said Bryan Davies, Labour's spokesman on higher...
ARE the arguments for the cloning of animals as woolly as the first product of this technique (THES, February 28)? To what problems is cloning the solution? Will it improve the stock of animals for...
IN HIS eagerness to agree with Terry Eagleton's moralising strictures against postmodernism's supposedly arbitrary relativism, Peter Aspden (THES, February 28) did not mention that Eagleton himself...
IT WAS great to see a black person on The THES front page (February 28). Not so great to see a black person appear in the form of a cartoon figure bearing a remarkable resemblance to Robertson Jam's...
THE DEBATE in your letters column about the policies of academic trade unions vis-a-vis pay review bodies fails to address the different circumstances of staff in the pre and post-1992 sectors....
I am astonished that The THES permitted Geoffrey Alderman, in his personal campaign to discredit the office of chief rabbinate and to malign Reform Judaism, the use of its columns to abuse his...
JANE McAdoo's assumption that initial teacher training will be exiled from the academic world has no foundation and shows little understanding of the Teacher Training Agency's work (THES, February 28...
SOMEONE should point out that it is individuals, not departments, who do research, because your summary of comments about the "flawed basis of the judgements" of the research assessment exercises did...
University of Exeter "Life is a Liquid Crystal!" Duncan Bruce, professor of inorganic chemistry will deliver his inaugural lecture on Monday March 17 at 1.10pm in the Newman LTC, Peter Chalk Centre.
The AUT wants an end to fixed-term contracts Fixed-term contracts are the norm for young academics starting their careers but the short-termism they breed is damaging both staff and institutions,...
University of Stirling John Crump, formerly at the University of York, has been appointed to the WYWY chair of Japanese Studies. University of Edinburgh Ian Metcalfe, formerly at Imperial College and...
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