Autocracy kills courses
Autocratic management in further education is responsible for falling standards, researchers have concluded. A report on the findings of a survey for the Learning and Skills Development Agency says...
Search
-
-
A further foundation
The University of Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning has launched a foundation degree that will open a professional pathway for further education lecturers. The degree in post-compulsory...
-
Don defeats Lineker
Leicester University's genetic fingerprinting pioneer Sir Alec Jeffreys has been voted Leicestershire's "greatest Briton". Readers of the Leicester Mercury newspaper placed Sir Alec above football...
-
Hymns and healing
St Andrews University theologian Ian Bradley appeared yesterday on a US Thanksgiving Day television broadcast explaining the role of hymns in helping people in the aftermath of the World Trade Center...
-
Intellectual integrity that may get lost in the scrum
Sport psychology has been around for a long time, but its status is still in question, says Adrian Mourby. The first Institute for the Study of Sport and Physical Culture was established in St...
-
Wanted: bright graduates, any discipline, to keep UK moving
Congestion and a lack of transport planners is causing gridlock in Britain, argues minister John Spellar. The government's £181 billion Ten-year Plan for Transport is vital if Britain is to sustain a...
-
Is rush hour here for transport degrees?
Suzanne Stevenson seeks an alternative route out of transport gridlock. John Polak is intrigued by the tiny, seemingly inconsequential decisions that influence how, when and why we embark on journeys...
-
Burrowing away in a careers wonderland
In the last of our series All in a Day's Work , Harriet Swain descends the rabbit hole to meet Marianne Bhavsar as she organises events to get students on the right job path. Name: Marianne Bhavsar...
-
The stage is set for Cinders' new role
The divide between drama schools and universities is still there but, Susan Elkin writes, each has an important part to play in the overall production. Drama seems to have made a good job of...
-
Minuscule creatures that carry a heavy load
Industrial Microbiology
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a new translation of the world's earliest novel: "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone...
-
A general guide to growing up, gene by gene
Principles of Development
-
Want to meet some knockout mice? Here's how...
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
-
Automatic revelation at a price
A New Kind of Science Explorer
-
Up against a tide of denial
Truth and Truthfulness