Testing times for Cambridge types
Testing prospective students on their ability to think is proving better than A levels and interviews at predicting subsequent academic success, a conference heard this week, writes Alison Goddard....
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EU cash plans put on hold
European plans to fund human embryonic stem-cell research have been put on ice after ethical objections from three countries. A proposal by the European Commission to grant central European Union...
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MRC chief calls for budget to double
Britain's success in biomedical research is "miraculous" given its budget, but without a massive injection of cash it will be lost, the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council warned MPs...
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Stem-cell work under threat
UK stem-cell researchers face the prospect of greater international isolation as opponents in the European Parliament and the United Nations consider moves to restrict their work. A bid to get...
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The highs and lows of the peripatetic life
Working as an academic commuter is difficult and stressful, writes Ruth Morse, but it can have its benefits If anyone had told me, in the 1970s, that I would spend most of my time commuting...
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Jobwatch: reheat your career
As Europe faces the chill of winter, academics may warm to a job in the statistical sciences department at the University of Cape Town, or a post as halls administrator in the West Indies, writes...
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Who got that job?
Ivan Popov, 44 Job advertised in The THES , April 4 2003 New Directions Lecturer in Rapid Product Development Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering Portsmouth University The position...
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We plant seeds, but they make them grow
Facilitating rather than teaching lies at the heart of successful problem-based learning, says Maggi Savin-Baden. "Mummy, why do the clouds move?" my three-year-old asked as she climbed on to a chair...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Karen Mattick Age : 31 Job : Lecturer in clinical education, Peninsula Medical School, a partnership between...
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100 new chairs created in bid to lift RAE scores
More than 100 new chairs are being created by UK universities in a multimillion-pound restructuring drive aimed at securing them top marks in the next research assessment exercise. As research...
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Women trail in spin-offs
Female scientists are at a disadvantage in commercialising academic research, a study by Stirling University's Centre for Entrepreneurship has found. A review of information from 20 leading...
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Luton makes it harder to fail amid dumbing-down fears
New rules to allow students to study "without fear of failure" in their first year have been agreed at Luton University in response to concerns that more than a quarter drop out. Amid claims that the...
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Dropout rates are down while access drive has little impact
Universities are making slow progress in cutting dropout rates and their efforts to recruit more poor students are also sluggish, according to the latest performance indicators. The proportion of...
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UEL takes steps to tackle first-year failure rate
Former higher education minister Margaret Hodge famously linked so-called Mickey Mouse degrees with the unacceptably high dropout rates found at institutions such as the University of East London,...
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Honours may lose to foundations
There may be no new money to pay for an extra 10,000 places on the government's flagship foundation degree courses next year, sparking fears that universities and colleges may have to divert cash...