Subject centres work
Your article on the higher education funding councils' proposed subject centres/networks dismissed the work of educational "do-gooders" as a largely failed method for promoting innovative teaching (...
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Appeal on standards
There has been growing concern about alleged dilution of academic standards in British universities and degree-awarding colleges. There is a need to find out if the allegation is well founded. Mantz...
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Mammon's imprint
Oxford University Press, which enjoys charitable trust status, is now in the hands of 'barbarians' who put profit before poetry, says Valentine Cunningham Oxford University Press is making a fool of...
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Lifelong paper is lacking in coherence, AUTS says
The Scottish Office has failed to produce a coherent plan in its green paper on lifelong learning, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. In its response to Opportunity Scotland,...
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Lecturer fights 'corruption'
Barcelona Spanish university appointments procedures that seem to favour internal candidates over better qualified lecturers returning from posts overseas are being challenged in the courts. Antonio...
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Peace moves
(Photograph) - Ethnic Albanian students at the University of Pristina ended a day's hunger strike after the Yugoslav government and Kosovar leaders agreed to this week's peace talks outside Paris...
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Agony Aunt
I would like to use the web for teaching purposes but don't know how to sort out the good material from the dross Joyce Martin, Head of CTI Support Service, Oxford 01865 33 ctiss@oucs.ox.ac.uk A Pick...
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Scotland's higher education institutions
Scotland's higher education institutions must not lose out if teaching funds for the Open University in Scotland are transferred north of the border, the AUTS has warned. The government is consulting...
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Blunkett's axe hovers over TTA
Speculation that the government is prepared to abolish the Teacher Training Agency is mounting after last week's announcement of a review of the "future need" for the agency's functions. The...
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Financial penalties for universities to be softened
Financial penalties for universities that have under-recruited to teacher training courses will be softened this year, the TTA has confirmed. Setting out details of the distribution of Pounds 160...
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Shunning the Scots
Incorrect recruitment figures were published for Heriot-Watt University ("North hit as applications fall", THES, January 22). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figure of a fall of 21...
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A shrug at the dole queue
Work and Welfare
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Aggressors and transgressors
The Argument Culture
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Charting a risky business
Journal of Risk Research
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Woodstock of the mind
Journal of Consciousness Studies