Cutting edge
(Photograph) - Cutting edge: a Southampton University engineering student shows off her entry to the BBC's Robot Wars programme as part of a university day to inspire innovation and invention. The...
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University IT skills are not matching the equipment
UK universities need to develop strategies for urgent reskilling of staff, according to the final report from the Joint Information Systems Committee-funded Staff Computer&IT Skills project (...
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Alarm over FBI 'big brother' spy program
Reports that the FBI has a program that can intercept private email messages is raising alarm among some of the biggest internet service providers in America - universities and colleges. Already...
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A solution or California dreaming?
British ministers, keen to learn from the United States, might like to study the decision of the state of California to extend its Cal Grant programme from next year (back page). The new scheme has...
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Free tasters and loyalty cards - an HE heaven?
In the fourth of our series on universities in the 21st century, Wendy Piatt envisages a world of differential fees, scholarships, foundation degrees and infinitely adaptable curricula It is...
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ILT recruiting tactics queried
Like many other readers, I have pondered this summer whether or not I would support the Institute for Learning and Teaching. However, my mind was made up for me after reading the announcement that...
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ILT recruiting tactics queried
Your brief item, "Health workers offered ILT membership" (For the record, THES, August 18), was misleading in omitting to say that "registered nurses, midwives and health visitors who qualified with...
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Marked race card
Your editorial fingers are, as uncannily as ever, on the pulse of the profession and the wider national mood (Books, THES, August 18). In a week when the academic disinclinations of Britain's...
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Nurturing rapport
I was encouraged to see that Agony Aunt (Teaching, THES, August 18) was approached by a new research supervisor seeking advice on how to build a good rapport with students, but deeply depressed by...
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DFEE's role in Derby
The Quality Assurance Agency report on allegations against University of Derby operations in Israel raises issues the sector needs to address urgently ("Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair", THES...
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DFEE's role in Derby
It is not true that the QAA 1998 audit of the University of Derby's link with Israel failed to spot the weaknesses on which we reported earlier this month. As with many such links we found strengths...
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Working holiday
Robert Walls perpetrates against university teachers the oldest libel in the book by equating contact hours with the total number of working hours (Letters, THES, August 18). All teachers have to...
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Hindutva dangers
The decision of India's University Grants Commission to introduce a degree course for the Hindu priesthood ("Liberals attack priests' degree", THES, August 11) is not only imprudent, but may have...
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Heritage lottery blues
Kingston had a similar experience to Durham University with the Heritage Lottery Fund ("Lottery rejects castle repairs", THES, August 11). Last January, I applied for Pounds 78,000 to support the...
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Spelling mistake
As the only person in my university who seems not to have changed his German spelling, I am heartened by Frankfurter Allgemeine and Deutscher Hochschulverband support ("Germans say no to simplified...