Adults pass up university places
STUDENT leaders this week called on the government to take urgent action to halt a massive slump in the numbers of adults accepting university places. The National Union of Students said it was...
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'Sneering don' puts pressure on tutors
Pressure is mounting to ensure that Cambridge University tutors get training in interview techniques after this week's controversy over the "sneering don", who reduced an interviewee to tears when he...
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Overseas students watch the costs
A university's reputation for scholarship is less important to overseas students than the cost of tuition and its range of courses, says research published last week, writes Phil Baty. Education...
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Low grades open the path to science degree
Posing as a prospective student with very low grades, THES reporter Natasha Loder tried to get onto physics and history degree courses for 1998-99. Despite a D in maths, an E in physics and a U in...
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Advice could halt quitters
Tens of thousands of students each year might finish their courses if they had better advice before and after they enter higher education. Mantz Yorke, professor of higher education at Liverpool John...
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Winning formula
(Photograph) - Winning formula: teenagers from all over the country learn about the fun of chemistry at a University of York summer camp run by the Salters Institute of Industrial Chemistry. One of...
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Teacher trainers held to account
Vice-chancellors are worried about plans to hold university teacher training departments responsible for the classroom performance of new teachers. Proposals for a quality framework for teacher...
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Ulster bids to raise Pounds 70 million
Ulster University is hoping to capitalise on international sympathy for Northern Ireland with a bid to raise Pounds 70 million to help tackle social issues and promote economic regeneration. The...
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Mersey's new beat
About 60 students from all over the world attended the first jazz summer school at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts this year. Jazz began a seven-week programme of international summer...
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Fiery temptation
Staff at Ulster University showed remarkable restraint this week as more than 200 of the world's leading fire safety experts arrived in Belfast for the first international symposium on human...
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Wise guy
Academics may be bright, but how many are wise? Only one, according to the Council of Europe. Antonio La Pergola, professor of law in Padua and Bologna and chairman of the Venice Commission on...
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Prince of brains
We don't know which of the royals got the looks, but it seems from a newspaper report this week that Prince William got the brains. It reports that he is the cleverest-ever Windsor (a little like...
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Nurse for a day
Godliness can lead to a tranquil and placid existence even before the next life, if the experience of Ian Markham, professor of theology and public life at Liverpool Hope University College, is...
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Star wars
Yet more alleged skulduggery in the five-year saga over Cambridge University's plans to floodlight its sports ground against the wishes of local university astronomers - and residents - who insist...
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Doubting Thomas
The defection of Tom Wilson, former Association of University Teachers assistant general secretary, to Natfhe threatened problems for the Bett committee, set up to discuss academic pay and conditions...