Move to mark fails as passes was 'a mistake'
VICE chancellor Mike Fitzgerald has admitted that an internal Thames Valley University memorandum ordering assessors to turn student fails into passes was amistake. In a frank interview with The THES...
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Designer approach to production line
Encouraging companies to incorporate design in their manufacturing strategy is the aim of Cardiff Institute's innovative Design Engineering Research Centre. Focusing on helping industry to create...
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Lifelong paper relegated
THE government has downgraded its master plan for lifelong learning from a white paper to a green consultation paper. The move, confirmed this week by the Department for Education and Employment,...
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Viviane Reding: Entering the Information Age, "Club of three" conference, organised by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Berlin, 20 June 2002
Berlin, 20 June 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to be here today and to have the opportunity to speak about the challenges that Europe faces on this journey towards the...
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Devolution threatens worldwide standing
Vice-chancellors have voiced fears that devolution and regional policies could undermine the international standing of British higher education. They are worried that devolved powers in Scotland and...
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Comrades try to get Prudence to wear more red
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
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Building blocks
The Construction Company in and out of Recession
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Archaeologists dig for gold
Playing the heritage card could help scientists win funding, says Wendy Barnaby Scientists are turning to tourism, the world's fastest-growing industry, as a novel way of winning funding. A recent...
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Risks in overseas liaisons
When universities link up with institutions abroad, they can get more than they bargained for. Matthew Chapman reports. When it comes to promoting their courses, United States higher education...
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Scotland demands more collaboration
A GOVERNMENT review of Scottish further education funding must foster collaboration rather than "over-vigorous competition", Scottish Office education and industry minister Brian Wilson has warned....
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Brands hatched
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Chairs
University of Wales, Bangor Jenny Thomas, senior lecturer in the department of linguistics and modern English language at the University of Lancaster, has been appointed professor of linguistics from...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU
Brussels, 15 October 2002 This questions and answers fact sheet is divided into two sections; Part A covers legislation in force; Part B covers the legislative proposals on tracability and labelling...
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Norway and the others
EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Edited by David Sadler Longman, quarterly, Pounds 58.00 (individuals), Pounds 97.00 (institutions) ISSN 0969 7764 This new journal has very ambitious aims. It...
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Blackstone promises no dilution of A levels
The Government will not "water down the standard of A levels", education and employment minister Tessa Blackstone insisted this week. Baroness Blackstone was keen to appease her detractors amid...