Italians' cunning plans secure extra course credits
Italy's academics are in a frenzy over the transition from degrees based on a series of exams to a system of credits. Faculty councils are using any means necessary, from academic clout to...
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Higher education awards and appointments
University of Central England Marie-Pierre Gauthier , was awarded first place in a competition to create the office of the future for business advisers Andersen and Andersen Legal; Katherine Smith...
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Latest UK news
Scots 2,000 examiners down The Scottish Qualifications Authority is short of more than 2,000 examiners one month before this year’s examinations begin. Scottish education minister Jack McConnell said...
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Latest international news
US medics go to Cuba for free training Cuba yesterday welcomed the first group of US students to receive free medical training in the communist state. The six women and two men will join...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian A private consortium of genetics and computer firms has announced plans to trump the deciphering of the human "book of life" by mapping and selling a molecule-by-molecule blueprint of...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Anything new in The THES this week? There is a major research study pointing out that the teaching quality assessment cost more than £100m and lasted ten years and was probably a complete waste of...
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Letter: Review is good for you (1)
After the barrage of criticisms of the Quality Assurance Agency ("QAA faces boycott by 66,000 lecturers", Analysis, Leader, Letters, Laurie Taylor, THES, March 30), an alternative perspective needs...
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Letter: Review is good for you (2)
It is not only institutional learning that has caused the rise in average total scores under the teaching quality assessment. In May 1995, I was a member of one of the first assessment teams applying...
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Letter: Review is good for you (3)
Laurie Taylor and the QAA overlook the true point of honorary degrees, and the reason why they are arranged orally. The traditional salutation is: "We give you the cachet, and you give us the cash,...
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Letter: Review is good for you (4)
Your leader says I am not a maverick. But I am, as is anyone these days who believes that universities and their staff should be trusted to do a good job, until they demonstrate that they cannot....
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Letter: A plus for UK maths
I found startling the statement by Brian Butterworth in his review of Keith Devlin's book The Maths Gene that "if we fall behind our economic competitors - and we have fallen a long way behind in the...
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Letter: Shameful assembly (1)
The problem in Welsh universities is not one of recruitment ("Squeeze hinders growth in Wales", THES , March 30), as any number of bums can be (and are) put on seats. The problem is simply that the...
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Letter: Shameful assembly (2)
The £265 million announced for Welsh higher education is only part of an overall recurrent grant of £286 million for the academic year 2001-02, to which should be added capital expenditure of £25...
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Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (1)
You imply that there is conscious student choice in unexpectedly ending up at a pre-1992 university ("Shunned six made to fight for survival", THES , March 30). As anyone involved with admissions at...
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Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (2)
I cannot speak for those of my colleagues at the other universities that have been invited by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England to prepare a plan following the shortfall in student...