糖心Vlog Quality Council
The 糖心Vlog Quality Council has attacked a Scottish review of teaching quality assessment for its comments on academic quality audit, writes Olga Wojtas. The Miller review group, set up...
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TTA hits out at single body idea
The Teacher Training Agency has blasted detailed proposals for the creation of a new single higher education quality body. It is not convinced by the plans which would knit together funding council...
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LSE chooses Giddens
CAMBRIDGE sociology professor Anthony Giddens is to be the new director of the London School of Economics, plunging him into the controversial debate over tuition fees for home undergraduates....
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Principals rush to clarify early retirement changes
SENIOR college staff hoping for early retirement are racing to find out their rights before changes in pension arrangements come into force. The Association for College Management has already...
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New v-cs lambaste 'pensions snatch'
VICE CHANCELLORS of new universities claim that Government pension proposals will handicap the former polytechnic sector in its attempts to cope with funding cuts. One leading vice chancellor...
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NVQs suffer a skills blow
NEARLY 40 per cent of assessors of national vocational qualifications admit to passing sub-standard students, according to a survey out this week. The finding is a big blow to the Government's...
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Director's daughters on Soton petition
SOUTHAMPTON Institute director, David Leyland, ordered an investigation into complaints from students, including two of his daughters, about "unfair marking" on their course at the institute, it...
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CVCP counsel favours top-up fee wait
LEGAL advice to be presented to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals next week is likely to rule out top-up fees for 1997. The CVCP sought advice because of concerns about the position of...
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MA for South African freedom-fighter
(Photograph) - A LEADING South African freedom-fighter, now a senior member of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has graduated from Coventry University. Thomas Manthata (above), who...
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Saucery
Mulder and Scully could be interested in strange activities up Lancaster University way, where a UFO society has been founded to "cater for the enormous interest in unidentified aerial phenomena that...
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Hong Kong duck
Some archetypes appear to be genuinely international. Agence France Presse recently quoted a Hong Kong observer's view of Sir Ti Liang Yang, former chief justice and a candidate for the post of chief...
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Clever Trevor
University of Ulster vice chancellor Trevor Smith has had a rare vote of grassroots confidence - from the students of another university. Students at Queen's University, Belfast, have put his name...
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Dunkirk spirit
Gareth Roberts, chairman of the CVCP, had a handy budget hint for Kenneth Clarke during the launch of the committee's evidence to the Dearing committee last week. Government funding per student, he...
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Round Robbins
However, not everything at the CVCP is on a downward spiral. The evidence to Dearing runs to 70 pages and costs Pounds 25 for four volumes. By contrast, Roberts held up the CVCP evidence to Robbins...
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Baptism of fire
Alumnus to be proud of No 79 is the man who set such a frank, forthright and open standard for companies in the wake of alarming glitches - Eurotunnel's Robert Malpas, whose company's ability to...