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Traditional exams may no longer be the best way to establish what a student has learnt. Online assessment not only evaluates what students know, it can develop their understanding, says Harriet Swain...
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A great place to escape to eat cake
Name : Jill Raggett. Age : Old enough to know better. J ob : Reader in gardens and designed landscapes at Writtle College in Essex. I teach students on undergraduate programmes in horticulture and...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The head of my research team was poached early last year by a rival university. He is...
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RAE fuels trend for research only time
Upwardly mobile institutions increasingly offer posts with reduced teaching loads. Olga Wojtas reports The looming 2008 research assessment exercise is galvanising universities into offering new...
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Who's in, Who's out?
Northampton. Chris Moore, the new dean of social sciences at Northampton University, wants to give more back to the region. Professor Moore, a former social worker who joins from Sheffield Hallam...
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Queen's sets out lofty ambitions with 23 posts
Queen's University Belfast, the newest member of the Russell Group of research-led universities, announced 23 new academic posts in a broad range of subjects this week. The university wants to...
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Today's news
Fees cause fall in university applications The number of university applications dropped by almost 16,000 this year following the introduction of ?3,000-a-year tuition fees. Student leaders said the...
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On today's business agenda - the future
Exploring Corporate Strategy - Strategy
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a biographical coming-of-age novel: "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow...
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Father of an unwelcome nuclear family boom
Shopping for Bombs
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Black gold is no green solution
Sustainable Fossil Fuels
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It's better all round if everyone opens up
Fair Trade for All
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Unfathomable economic acts
Against the Flow
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A battle of ideas in which understanding lies among the casualties
Terrorism v Democracy