There are such things as societies
Professional societies are under threat from new technology. But, Harriet Swain says, they could turn a threat into an advantage In their early days, learned and professional societies could...
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Along with the rather dull recreations of music, running and reading he lists in Who's Who, Trevor Phillips includes "mischief". It is not a hobby automatically associated with the Blairite,...
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UK needs rebrand to exploit education
British further and higher education needs a new "brand image"according to an international survey. The sector needs to sell itself as modern, diverse, friendly and good value for money if it is to...
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Graduation day is a marketing machine
Graduation ceremonies are no longer just a celebration of success, they are the major marketing event of the year. And academics have a job to do. First they must sit on the platform and clap...
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Cubie takes broad view of student funding
Scotland's independent inquiry into student finance is to ask qualified young people who opted not to go into higher education why they made that decision. The inquiry, chaired by lawyer Andrew Cubie...
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Joint bodies reach uneasy truce over details of quality reporting framework
Disagreement still threatens the future of the new higher education quality assurance framework, with the Quality Assurance Agency agreeing to consult further on its plans to report teaching quality...
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Tea bags three prizes for bizarre research
Britain triumphed in the 1999 Ig Nobels, the spoof awards, with three prizewinners honoured for academic celebration of the national obsession with tea. The humorous science journal Annals of...
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Accra
The Ghanaian government closed Legon University after students protested against a tuition fees increase of about 500 per cent.
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Paris
Investigations into financial irregularities at France's biggest student social insurance society have revealed that Marie-France Lavarin, media adviser to education minister Claude Allegre, received...
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Sharp characters step up e-book campaign
Microsoft and Adobe are battling to establish a readable alternative to the printed book. Tony Durham reports Microsoft has revived interest in e-books - book-sized machines for reading electronic...
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Readers' reactions
Kumari Lane Reigate Last week in The THES... Jennie Bristow asked if university was the right place to educate gifted children. A university is an adult environment and it should provide an education...
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The root of all weevils
The weevils will inherit the earth. Research by a scientist at the Natural History Museum in London has started to reveal how a super family of beetles, best known (erroneously) for adding unwanted...
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Funding chiefs aim to lighten the load
Concerns that there is a growing burden of accountability in higher education have prompted the funding chiefs to commission research on the nature and extent of accountability arrangements....
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Bookmarks get thumbs up
Librarians may deplore what they consider the defacing of books, but researchers at Napier University see readers' marks as a celebration of identity. Academics from Napier's Scottish Centre for the...
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Business calls for training shake-up
Business leaders are to push for a radical restructuring of education and training to create an investment partnership between the individual, state and business. Employers are to be consulted on a...