Admission figures fall in teaching
PRIMARY teacher training courses have experienced a more than 15 per cent fall in applications, the latest figures show. Similar falls in the number of applicants for degrees or diplomas in social...
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MOD in health contract spat
THE MINISTRY of Defence has awarded Portsmouth University Pounds 600,000 to train its nurses just months after the National Health Service withdrew a similar contract. A spokesman for Portsmouth...
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Student nurse fraud detected
A STUDENT admissions fraud squad has uncovered evidence of a large number of bogus applications for places on nursing courses. It comes just as the verification unit of the Universities and Colleges...
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Child-proof
(Photograph) - Child-proof: pets help put Piaget to the test. Children aged two to five from Swansea University's creche and local primary schools are helping final-year psychology student Charlotte...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Arrive in Hong Kong. It has been three years since I returned to the United Kingdom after 18 years in Hong Kong and a year since my last visit. Red flags proclaim China's ownership. Later this...
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One-size tuition fee does not fit all
Someone once said that the difference between life and death is change. The person probably had the United Kingdom's system of higher education in mind. Nothing is ever quite settled or taken for...
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The price of market freedom
Universities around the world are increasingly enjoined to behave like businesses, and this trend is certain to continue. For one thing, public funding for further and higher education will continue...
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Tutors' research conflict 'inflated'
New research from Oxford Brookes University is re-opening the debate about the relationship between teaching and research. Universities have begun to re-examine whether it is necessary for good...
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'No one had warned me students had feelings'
Did your first students badger you with pertinent but unanswerable questions, patronise your inexperience orsimply fail to keep conscious? If so, you are not alone, according to a new book on...
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Dahling, your lecture was sooper!
Pronuntiatio, the fourth of the five canons of rhetoric set out by Latin scholars in 1 BC, advised that acting techniques should be assimilated by academics in order that information could be more...
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What type of student do you have to teach?
Teachers should realise that students adopt different styles of learning, says John Sparkes
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Spoon-fed feel lost at the cutting edge
Alison Utley looks at how school pupils are often ill-prepared for university study Before arriving at university students will have been powerfully influenced by their school's approach to learning...
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Is staff development drivel?
Yes, says Chris Grey. Forget playing games with teaching methods, spend the cash on books instead School teachers are frequently criticised for having supposedly abandoned traditional teaching...
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Is staff development drivel?
No, argues Suzanne Robertson. Outdated teaching fails to equip graduates properly What I find difficult to accept is that while no one would dispute that good research requires the close scrutiny and...
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Divided they surely fall
Peter Levin argues that traditional university teaching erodes students' value to employers by failing to develop their team-working skills The inability to work easily with other people as a member...