Don's Diary
Thursday. Strike action threatened on London underground tomorrow. Demonstrate GNVQ-type competence in "using a variety of information sources" to seek alternative ways of reaching Heathrow, and...
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Rating scale should go
Scotland's teaching quality assessment system should be radically revised by abandoning its current four-point rating scale, using existing reward funds to boost institutions' plans to improve...
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High cost of assessment
THE Research Assessment Exercise is having a damagingly distorting effect on university business schools, says a report on the management education sector. The 1996 Survey on Learning Methods in UK...
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Lecturer brushes up Welsh
An academic appointed to a Welsh-language lectureship by the University of Wales, Bangor, has stopped teaching for a year while she takes Welsh lessons. Surrey-born Pam Michael, who has learned to...
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Students prove reluctant to buy text-books
Hard-up students can afford fewer books for their money as cover prices soar and grants decline, according to a survey by a leading academic publishers. Blackwell Retail Ltd's survey of 500...
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Scots unite over site
A site earmarked for a university for south-west Scotland has attracted interest from two universities. Glasgow University has already unveiled plans to set up a college on the site of the former...
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Suspended Glasgow fine arts head resigns
Pavel Buchler, head of the fine art department at Glasgow School of Art's, left the college this week following a series of disciplinary hearings. A joint statement signed by Mr Buchler and the...
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MPs back fees rally
The Committee of Vice Chancellor and Principals has been accused of "holding a gun" to the heads of students over tuition fees. Chris Faddy, president of the University of Huddersfield student union...
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Second sector now first in line
THES reporters survey today's higher education sector to spot tomorrow's growing points. IT IS sometimes referred to as higher education's second sector. But it may be first in line for any future...
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Challenge of the novel
THES reporters survey today's higher education sector to spot tomorrow's growing points. Britain's higher education system has expanded beyond all recognition in recent years, yet there are still...
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Small and specialist
THES reporters survey today's higher education sector to spot tomorrow's growing points. Buckingham University, founded in 1973, kicked off the modern era of higher private sector education. But the...
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Industry gets a family tree
Theoretical biology is prom-ising to help researchers gain novel insights into manufacturing industry's successes and failures. Researchers at Sheffield University believe that basic biological...
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Soil secrets of sticky wickets
Higher quality cricket pitches could result from pioneering soil science research under way in Yorkshire and Wales. The Sports Turf Research Institute at Bingley and the University of Wales,...
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Frauds in the flowerbed
Genetic fingerprinting is to help combat counterfeit varieties of plants in garden centres across Europe. Researchers in Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands and France are collaborating on a Pounds...
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Drugs first for human tissue
The first drug company to experiment exclusively on human tissue opened its laboratories last week in Royston, Hertfordshire. Pharmagene, which has strong links with Leicester and Birmingham...