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Pass by a whisker
Exam board Edexcel is to support colleges and other centres delivering MOUS, a qualification for users of Microsoft Office applications. Test centres set their own prices but are expected to charge...
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Readers' reactions
Sue Blackmore Reader in psychology University of the West of England, Bristol. Clarification. Sue Blackmore spells out why the teaching quality assessment exercise displays scant regard for the truth...
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Should all university degree courses contain a creative writing module?
Should all university degree courses contain a creative writing module? Email us on soapbox@thesis.co.uk
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Transplant trial
Researchers at King's College London, the Royal Free Hospital and City University believe they can use telemedicine to save thousands of pounds on liver transplants. When a donor organ becomes...
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Long-awaited regime threatens to cramp change
To judge from the long delay, decisions on the control of degree-awarding powers in universities and colleges have not been easy to make. A pity, then, that after so long the outcome should be so...
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Market success relies on academic freedom
Academic freedom is an uncomfortable concept constantly under threat. Two such threats are reported in this issue of The THES. One (Whistleblowers, page 6) raises the question of whether the Public...
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Masters in the business of a truly global outlook
The best business education will have to be multicultural and transnational, predicts Bernard Ramanantsoa The "in" word to describe management education seems to be "global". Taking a cue from this...
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Women beat men to the bar in survey
Wanted: men willing to earn up to Pounds 50 for taking part in an alcohol experiment. Sussex University researcher Anne Jackson is nearing the end of a one-year project aimed at studying the effects...
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Why I ...believe the use of electroshock therapy on children is unconscionable
Steve Baldwin Professor of psychology, Teeside University Most people do not know that children as young as three have been given electro-shock treatment, sometimes without parental consent. The most...
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No shame in lucidity
Students of all subjects should be offered creative writing modules to learn how to write clearly, says Paul Magrs When I teach creative writing in universities it is to students of English...
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How do they spend our rent?
The Cambridge rent row highlights the lack of accountability and secrecy of the colleges, says Eleanor O'Keeffe The angry chants of the thousand or so student demonstrators at Saturday's rally in...
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Bath loses research cash as Warwick poaches staff
The University of Warwick's business school has poached seven top researchers from Bath University, and in doing so has prevented Bath from claiming credit for any work completed by the team - headed...
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RAE faces axe in DTI review
The research assessment exercise could be scrapped because it is failing to provide "bang for bucks". The Department for Trade and Industry, which is looking at the RAE under its plans to introduce a...
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Sporting replays
We applaud the article on student sport but would wish to correct the impression that sports scholarships at Loughborough University are awarded only to students in sports-related programmes. Many of...