Funders delay quality plan
Vice chancellors are facing further delays before they can discuss the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality body. The funding council is committed to...
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Net users take fast line to new jobs
Use of The THES Internet Service increased by half as the online service, offering job advertisements, summaries of the newspaper's contents, and other resources, entered its second week. The busiest...
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Students lobby on cut
Mature students from across the country lobbied MPs at the House of Commons this week on the abolition of their special allowance in the budget. A spokesperson for the National Union of Students,...
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Scottish lead way on credit-based courses
Scotland is leading the way in quality assurance for credit-based education through its pioneering national credit accumulation and transfer scheme, SCOTCAT. The scheme's Quality Assurance Handbook,...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Appointments at the Academy of Medical Sciences
New fellows elected to the the AMS on April 1 2001. Dr Timothy John Aitman , M.R.C. Clinical Scientist, Honorary Clinical Reader and Consultant Physician, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...
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Speaking Volumes: Tom Paine's Pamphlets
Harvey J. Kaye on Tom Paine's Pamphlets. I have testified in these pages and elsewhere to the influence upon me of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Barrington Moore's Social...
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Radiography wins a dramatic role
Ngaio Crequer talks to four academics about how the National Health Service reforms are affecting their daily work of training students, and finds them largely enthusiastic about the links between...
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Therapies for shuttered minds
Ngaio Crequer talks to four academics about how the National Health Service reforms are affecting their daily work of training students, and finds them largely enthusiastic about the links between...
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A broader focus for nursing
Ngaio Crequer talks to four academics about how the National Health Service reforms are affecting their daily work of training students, and finds them largely enthusiastic about the links between...
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Dotting the eyes, crossing the cheques
Ngaio Crequer talks to four academics about how the National Health Service reforms are affecting their daily work of training students, and finds them largely enthusiastic about the links between...
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Warning signs at the rebirth of an idea
Innovative and market-led approaches to patient care are being reflected in specialist training. Magnus Shearer calls for an integrated approach. Acres of newsprint have been devoted to the detailed...
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Struggling free from casualty
Professions allied to medicine have come of age but face challenges to their development, Roger Ellis argues. Paramedical is a term to use with care. Literally it means those nice people in green...
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Compound fractures
Student funding for university hospitals is under review. Peter Richards welcomes some of the changes, but asks if the academic backbone of clinical education is near breaking point. The NHS "Reforms...