If you're asked to pass a failing student...
...don't do it. For all our sakes, do not collude with this undermining of the academy's standards, urges Bob Brecher If you teach first-year undergraduates, you may well be wondering how to cope...
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Jobwatch: Shortages fuel expansion
Health and medical-related vacancies are much in evidence as a result of course popularity, interdisciplinary initiatives and universities cashing in on intellectual property. Pat Leon reports A...
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Who got that job?
Susan Ayres, 39 Job advertised in The THES , February 14 2003 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology University of Sussex Sussex University advertised for staff as part of a radical...
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Throw a spanner in all this mechanical talk
The language used to describe teaching and learning really does have an impact -and it's driving Patrick Smith to distraction Picking myself up off the floor, having forgotten how low the lintel over...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Chris Willmott Age: 36 Job: Lecturer in biochemistry, University of Leicester. Salary : £24,121 Qualifications: BSc...
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Scientists will test BSE mutation theory
The origins of the BSE epidemic that devastated the UK beef industry could be revealed in a new series of tests that raise the prospect of the complete eradication of mad cow disease from the British...
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Students gear up for Coca-Cola boycott
Coca-Cola's multimillion-pound domination of UK university bars and cafeterias is threatened by a student-led campaign for a boycott of its soft drinks amid concerns over deaths and harassment of...
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Historians battle over Nelson's reputation
A new battle of Trafalgar has been started by naval historians seeking to defend the honour of Horatio Nelson before the bicentenary of his finest hour. A host of biographical projects has been...
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Lambert offers cash for code
A multimillion-pound sweetener should be paid to universities to boost links with business, but only if institutions accept a new code for good management, a review for the Treasury will recommend...
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In the news: Dinah Warnock
When Southampton University told Dinah Warnock that she was too old to work for the institution, age discrimination was shown to be flourishing within academe. The government might be looking to...
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Appointments
Andrew Evans , professor of transport safety at the University of London, has been appointed to the Lloyd's Register chair in transport risk management at Imperial College London. Derick Wilson ,...
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Grants may be key to success
A package of New Year concessions on the higher education bill could see student maintenance grants raised but the government promised no retreat on variable charges this week. Publication of the...
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Nottingham strike threat over job scale
Academics at Nottingham University are threatening industrial action over the introduction of a job evaluation scheme imported from the private sector that has left at least one member of staff...
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Laureate backs pop science
Academics who popularise science on television should be congratulated and not attacked, Nobel laureate John Sulston said last week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Professor Sulston, who published the...
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May doubts research link
Royal Society president Robert May this week questioned universities' pious insistence that research was a prerequisite of good teaching. Delivering the Royal Society anniversary address on Monday,...