QAA code curtails student rights
The Quality Assurance Agency's attempt to control students' access to information through its code of practice on students' complaints and appeals ("Visitor is out in QAA draft code", THES, July 23...
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Access issues
The article on the discussion about policy responses to widening access at the annual Conference of the European Access Network presents what was said by a member of our staff during a debate...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney, reviewing books by Susan Haack and Sandra Harding, opines that "their disagreements are real, but they have more in common than either is inclined to admit" (Books, THES, July 9). Of...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney's review of Haack's Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate and Harding's Is Science Multicultural? is a strange and confusing read. It begins by contrasting their epistemologies, with Haack...
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Devaluing our talent
I read with great interest that John Randall's Quality Assurance Agency's office salary budget has been increased to Pounds 129,000 (THES, July 23). I have recently been appointed to the QAA's...
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Oz ruling may lead to back pay claims
MELBOURNE Moves by Australian universities and technical colleges to outsource the provision of services such as payroll, finance, cleaning and maintenance are likely to cost the institutions more...
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Adult education woman's work
Physical education, practical craft and business and vocational courses are the most popular local adult education classes. Enrolments on all courses rose by 4.9 per cent between 1997 and 1998 to...
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Israel puts Derby on hold
The reputation of British universities in the global market suffered a blow this week when Israel's higher education regulatory authority accused institutions of compromising standards to make "as...
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Department of Health
(Photograph) - The Department of Health is taking steps to ensure that all first-year university students are vaccinated against meningitis before they start studies this autumn, writes Madeleine...
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MRC gives Pounds 30 million injection
The Medical Research Council has announced a record annual increase of Pounds 30 million for research into health and medicine. Among those to benefit is a Pounds 7.5 million initiative aimed at...
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Blunkett demands inquiry into Cricklade
Education secretary David Blunkett has invoked special powers for the first time to order an immediate investigation into mismanagement at Cricklade College, writes Phil Baty. Mr Blunkett has ordered...
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Science needs clarity on intellectual property
University research is the "lifeblood" of the United Kingdom's biotechnology sector, but researchers are hampered by uncertainty over the ownership of the intellectual property they generate,...
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Pay protest aims to hit pupils
The Association of University Teachers Scotland this week pressed the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee to investigate the academic pay crisis behind next week's...
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Shop-floor art
(Photograph) - Shop-floor art: Maria McCavana, a student at Glasgow School of Art (pictured with John McFadden, outgoing president of Unison), unveils her three-part wall-hanging, commissioned by the...
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Database set to boost South Africa's crime fight
DURBAN South Africa is notorious for its lawlessness - more than 20,000 people die violently from crime each year in a land with a murder rate nine times the global average. Now the fight against...