A virtual dilemma
Mike Fitzgerald ("Polar bores miss multimedia point", THES, July 5) is right to be concerned about the polarisation of views on information technology and education. As a computer specialist, I ought...
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Material girls
(Photograph) - Material girls: Danielle Russell (left) was one of the Bradford and Ilkley Community College fashion students to model clothes used in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the...
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Job seekers firm is a hit
The United Kingdom's first student-run scheme to help graduates find work is set for a successful first year, writes Alan Thomson. Westminster Business Consultants Ltd, launched last August at...
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Down under on the up
There is compelling evidence that in the competitive business of attracting overseas students to study in its universities, Australia has "got it right". For example, Australia is the most preferred...
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MPs back scientists
The spiralling cost of Britain's membership of Cern, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, caused by fluctuations in the exchange rate, should be borne by the Treasury and not the science...
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Core no more in skills-go-round
Just when educationists think they are getting the hang of the technical vocabulary of vocational qualifications, bureaucrats go and change it all. "Core skills" is to be phased out and replaced by "...
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Schools happy to leave training to institutions
Schools are happy to let higher education continue to play the major role in initial teacher training, a national study has found, writes Tony Tysome. Despite the misgivings of Government agencies...
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Shake-up in Italian jobs
Universities minister Luigi Berlinguer has launched a package of reforms which should result in the most radical revolution in Italian higher education since the second world war. The reforms, if...
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Japanese enjoy their tipples too
Russians dying for a drink" by Zhores Medvedev (THES, July 12) contains a number of inaccurate comparisons making reference to Japan. Japanese living standards are not lower than those of Americans...
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Circling around the Dearing ring
The gradual clarification of Labour's ideas on English regional governance may well provide a context for at least some of the issues which the Dearing committee will need to address. Having spent 25...
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Institute of Physics
* The president-elect of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Brian Manley, said last week that the institute may fund research into the structure and content of post-16 education, writes Graham Lawton....
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Stars in her eyes
(Photograph) - Stars in her eyes: Hazel Hall, single parent of two, has just been awarded a first-class honours on the part-time BA fine art course at the Canterbury College of the Kent Institute of...
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Cambridge sends smoke signals
More than 3,500 Cambridge University dons will finally decide today whether to accept the controversial gift of Pounds 1.5 million from tobacco giant BAT Industries for a professorship in...
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Post script
We apologise to THES subscribers whose copies are delayed by this week's planned one-day postal strike, which, as we went to press, was due to take place on Thursday.
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Class act
(Photograph) - Diane Modahl will run in the Olympic 800 metres having just done a media studies degree