Coordinated vision
University teaching courses should include subject-specific research, argues Pol O'Dochartaigh. Why is it that postgraduate certificates in university teaching contain very little about the subjects...
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Big Brother in public eye on ethics
The British Psychological Society is set to investigate a sociologist's complaint about psychologists' involvement in the television programme Big Brother. David Miller, research manager of Stirling...
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Rules on recruiting students relaxed
Funding chiefs have bumped up the maximum number of students each university or college can recruit next year, after a shortfall of 7,000 last year. Until last week, universities and colleges that...
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Increase in funding for higher education
The extra Pounds 100 million for higher education announced by the government last month represents a 0.5 per cent increase in the unit of funding, ministers confirmed last week. The lifelong...
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Russia bankrolls loans to students
Russia's state savings bank has launched the country's first national student loans scheme with education ministry backing. The Pounds 2.5 billion initiative by Sberbank is aimed at existing students...
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Blair initiative may dilute fund
British involvement in the Commonwealth's top postgraduate scholarship scheme is under review as education ministers from 54 Commonwealth countries come under pressure to step up their commitment....
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World watch
Russian culture minister Mikhail Shvydkov has expressed shock at the fatal shooting last weekend of Sergey Isayev, rector of Moscow's State Academy of Theatrical Art. He noted that it was the first...
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World watch
The University of the Wi****ersrand has launched a fellowship fund to halt the country's brain drain. The Friedland Fellowship will encourage scientists to come to South Africa to do socially...
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Public value work of scientists
Most members of the public think scientists and engineers make a valuable contribution to society, according to an Office of Science and Technology/Wellcome Trust survey into public attitudes to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES: Baroness Blackstone announced a review of university careers services I have recently retired after 30 years as a university careers adviser and feel that the Dearing report...
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Turnstile to tinier future
Two Cambridge physicists have created a counter that acts as a turnstile for single electrons. The delicate technology could be used in a host of electronics applications such as multi-level memory...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with the title of a minor metropolitan train station: " This is a true story but I can't...
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Finkelstein's final solution
The Holocaust Industry
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Rape is not just another word for suffering
Sex and Social Justice
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Mob rule with an eye for morals
Moral Economy and Popular Protest