FE to be responsible for making good citizens
All further education students should be trained to develop citizenship skills to equip them better for life and work, an advisory group to education secretary David Blunkett has said. A report from...
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Sheffield offers an online shoulder to cry on
Sheffield University may soon be able to offer e-therapy in a pilot project that could revolutionise student counselling. Jeannie Wright, staff counsellor at Sheffield, said online support could be a...
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Is this death-knell for 'live art'?
An emerging field in the arts is threatened by a shake-up of arts courses at Nottingham Trent University, academics have warned, writes Phil Baty. Specialists in the field of "live art" say that the...
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Student to take Oxford to court
The High Court is to review Oxford University's examination and assessment procedures after a legal victory for an Indian student who claims discrimination. Postgraduate student Nadeem Ahmed has been...
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Paisley puts the elite to shame
Alison Goddard Indicators show privilege is still the passport to university and top institutions are doing the least to redress the balance. Alison Goddard reports The full extent of the task to...
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Headhunter says sorry
Saxton Bampfylde Hever, a recruitment consultancy, has apologised for being untruthful and dismissive in its dealings with whistleblower John Pickering. Professor Pickering lost his job as deputy...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Once again endure the pleasures of an overnight flight to Johannesburg. It is easier to commute to Jo'burg than it is to take the Central Line to Mile End. I am returning to South Africa at...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Philip Dowson, who in December retired as president of the Royal Academy of Arts and has been a royal academician since 1979, has received an honorary doctor of art degree from De Montfort...
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On the move
Terry Goodison, who has been developing and leading the University of Wolverhampton's BA degree in interactive multimedia communication for six years, has been appointed senior research fellow of The...
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In the news
Theresa May has struggled to make an impression as shadow education secretary over the past 15 months. But this is not surprising given that she has spent most of the time since her appointment in...
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Trashing royalty
There was no chauffeur-driven limo for Ivo Svoboda of the Scottish Agricultural College when he visited Balmoral on business: instead he arrived on the council dustcart to investigate the contents of...
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Violence in the genes
Who is the smartest person in the world? The organisers of the spoof Ig Nobel Prizes devised a remarkably fast way to answer the question by asking contenders to talk over each other for 30 seconds,...
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Conference call
Delegates at the Labour Party conference last week were instructed to switch off their mobile phones as they entered the conference hall. Sadly, this meant that they were unable to check David...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... Rick Trainor argued that the Millennium Dome offers great opportunities to higher education Judith Watson Brighton Rick Trainor correctly identifies a "pivotal role" for...
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Hefce rule change causes 'dirty tricks'
Funding chiefs have been accused of sparking a "dirty tricks" recruitment war and jeopardising standards in a late attempt to bump up this year's student intake. The Higher Education Funding Council...