Teacher training game 'may not be worth candle'
Government changes to initial teacher training (ITT) could create a “perfect storm” for higher education, a seminar has heard.James Noble-Rogers, executive director of the Universities’ Council for...
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Exam board's Open marriage set to offer colleges greater independence
No traditional partner needed for new foundation degree-level qualification. David Matthews writes
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HE in FE growth a bit too marginal, Cable admits
The expansion of higher education provision in further education colleges has not happened as quickly as the government had hoped, Vince Cable has admitted.Speaking on 21 November at the Association...
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The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix It
Steve Yearley weighs claims that environmental policies sweep emissions under a Chinese rug
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On Global Justice
A book like this makes me nervous. Here I am writing for Times Higher Education when I should be engaged in proper, serious scholarship. Look at this book: prodigious does not begin to do it justice...
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Cultures of Mediatization
Raymond Williams described “culture” as “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”. I wonder how he would have managed “mediatization”. I have a sense that he would have...
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict
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An Ecology of Happiness
We face a great contemporary paradox. Many domestic economies are stagnating and in desperate need of growth. At the same time, the apparently free natural resources of the planet are being used up....
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Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Pain is complicated, not only because of the different types of it but also because of the multidimensional aspects of the physical, emotional and cognitive experience. However, in Understanding Pain...
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From Where I Sit - Money in the pot
When CNN called the election for President Obama surprisingly early in the evening of 6 November, the crowd in Sproul Plaza went wild. There was cheering, dancing, hugging and, yes, a couple of...
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29 November 2012
Let them fly - Set learning free from the constraints of bureaucracy
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Research intelligence - Now she'll work by her own rules
Astrid Wissenburg helped set the policies she will be bound by in her new OU role. Paul Jump writes
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Sergio Sismondo on a critical exploration of a new, lucrative model for public well-being