QAA benchmarking 'shambles'
The Quality Assurance Agency's policy development on benchmarking has become a shambles. Vice-chancellors, uneasy about campus autonomy in the light of the new blueprint, should be seizing the chance...
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Speaking of God...
It was gratifying to see a British university department (biblical studies at Sheffield) receiving justifiable praise ("Greatest story ever told", THES, February 11). Puzzling, though, was the...
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To join the ILT or not?
Tim Unwin and Richard Hodgkins say they care passionately about "the quality of their teaching" and that geography has an excellent record (Soapbox, THES, February 4). So, what is the problem? Why...
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To join the ILT or not?
Unwin and Hodgkins ridicule the "new orthodoxy of higher education" - meaning what? As far as I am concerned it means placing "learning, teaching and scholarship" at the heart of the university...
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To join the ILT or not?
The ILT will raise the profile and value of teaching as a profession in higher education. It will help to set and encourage high standards of professionalism and scholarship. It is perhaps for this...
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Section 28 injustice
Everyone who teaches young people has had to cope with the fall-out from the near hysterical debate on the repeal of Section 28. It is recognised throughout the teaching profession that Section 28...
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UCAS a bar to access
I have just returned from the British Council education exhibitions in Hong Kong and Thailand, where much was made of the new branding of British education. While I applaud this initiative, one of...
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More pay, fewer jibes
Academic and related staff have a strong case for their salaries to be increased, as the evidence from the Bett committee indicates. Let us hope that the government will ensure that universities...
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Bright sparks cross the divide
The old versus new university divide makes no difference to the amount of innovative teaching taking place. Harold Silver and Andrew Hannan have found that it is history that counts History appears...
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Glass class
(Photograph) - Kirsteen Aubrey displays her work for Public Arts Laboratory, an interactive exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester until February 28. Visitors enter the world...
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Stressed, bored, sober and selfish
Stress continues to rise among American students, especially females, says a national survey. Researchers blame a faster lifestyle, high expectations and the need to work part-time to pay tuition...
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Turks cite Islamic threat and sack 53
Turkish universities have sacked 53 academics in the largest purge of staff by the country's ruling higher education authority in recent years. The expulsions were carried out by the authority's...
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Australian bosses find graduate applicants deficient
More than three in every four graduates from Australia's universities and technical colleges are unsuitable for the jobs they apply for, according to a national survey of employers. New graduates...
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Students stranded in illegal limbo
Many Palestinian students remain cut off from their homes three months after a "safe passage" allowing them to travel between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was opened by the Israeli authorities. "...
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Study finds more to bug than technology
Organisations that rose to the challenge presented by the millennium bug could use similar strategies to ensure other wide-ranging changes happen more smoothly, according to research published by...