Care is worth a guinea or three
On reading your headline "Pounds 5.8 billion" (THES, September 20), I think a personal reflection may cast some light on this problem. At the end of a working life, I, like Virginia Woolf, ask the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Got back from holiday late last night. Threw daughter's washing in the machine before bed. Get her packed and off to camp before getting ready for our collecting trip to the Czech Republic...
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Experts query attack on teacher training
Education experts have challenged the Government's claim that teacher training standards are slipping in higher education. New research findings suggest that, contrary to assertions by ministers,...
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New dawn for researchers
The careers of contract researchers could be markedly improved with clearer job descriptions, formal and regular job appraisal and a statement on competencies and targets, according to Sally Wheeler...
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Lib Dems face up to figure rejig
The Liberal Democrats face up to figures that won't add up. The Liberal Democrats have gone back to the drawing board on costing their proposals for a new further and higher education funding system...
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Taken for a ride
Indignant denial, from a source close to the University of Hertfordshire, of our suggestion (September 6) that the university bus service might start refusing to allow passengers to leave until they...
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Writing on the wall for theses
Universities have been asked to consider reviewing their PhD programmes in the light of new evidence showing that the traditional thesis-based approach may be out of date. A UK Council for Graduate...
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Babies scupper equality
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. The good intentions of young "liberated" couples to share domestic chores get thrown to the...
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Aussies mug up on European law
The University of New South Wales in Australia has established the first centre for the study of European law outside Europe and the United States. The European Law Centre will provide an Asian-...
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Don't wait, tap the vat for students
Vice chancellors seeking to repair their bank balances by obtaining more money from students (THES, September 20) could productively look in other directions for additional funding. They could direct...
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Indonesia in spotlight
Regular Indonesia watchers have been alternately pleased and appalled at the press coverage of this summer's events in the country: pleased that at last the fourth most populous nation in the world...
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Colleges face rebel swell
Gang rivalry, swearing and joy-riding are spilling from the streets into further education colleges as their student intake expands. Potential flashpoints range from care in the community patients to...
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Welsh college axes 13 academics
Thirteen academics at the University of Wales College Newport have been made compulsorily redundant and will leave on October 7. They were notified of the decision only at the beginning of last week...
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Parties steer safe course on funding
Labour and Conservative conferences are set to take a low-key approach to funding issues. "We're all in the same boat, and nobody wants to rock it." The speaker, as it happens, is a Labour supporter...
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Baby steps are a great success
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...