Training execs top of the list
Executive education subjects still dominate the list of subject areas in which private universities and colleges forge links with corporate partners, according to an international survey by Corporate...
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Sainsbury cash talk cheers up scientists
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
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Blackstone pledge to raise profile of teaching
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Baroness Blackstone has promised to raise the status of teaching in universities, particularly those that are research-...
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Research funding sources
Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Research Studentships Applications are now invited from prospective supervisors....
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Om tiddly om pom
It was amusing to find in Kevin Jones's article on Fibonacci applications to verse and music (Research, THES, September 17) that the popular rhythmic jingle "Om tiddly om pom - pom pom" also works in...
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Demographic design
There are dangers in using geodemographic classification or social class of applicants or accepted students to analyse the success or otherwise of higher education in widening access ("New data, same...
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Get research to tie the knot
WHAT: Jennifer Currie talks to Alan Jenkins about the difficult but necessary task of marrying teaching and research. WHY: Students need to be given clear information as to why the research is taking...
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RAE exclusion
The method employed to select panel members for the research assessment exercise seems to have excluded a priori staff from new universities. There is a risk that a method involving the mutual naming...
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Early dispute solutions
Baroness Blackstone's recent speech to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals served only to emphasise that a proper complaints procedure is now a minimum requirement for universities in...
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Early dispute solutions
Don Staniford (Letters, THES, September 24) claims the visitorial system lacks independence. What is the evidence for this? Why is the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, a committee...
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How the GDR targeted academics
Christopher Andrew's supposition that the Stasi discussed schemes "to encourage naive modern languages departments in British universities to send students to study German in East German universities...
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How the GDR targeted academics
Universities should not facilitate the investigation of students and academics by MI5, an organisation that has targeted socialists, trade-unionists and civil-libertarians in the name of so-called "...
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Pay the local way
Tom Wilson of Natfhe tells us that local pay determination would be expensive, wasteful and wrong (Letters, THES, September 24). It seems useful to bear in mind that most firms and organisations in...
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Pay the local way
According to David Mee, personnel director at the University of Central England (Letters, THES, September 24) the Bett committee should have listened to P. C. Knight and recommended the abolition of...
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Smart cards smooth path to college
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Further education students are to be offered smart cards to store personal information, monitor college attendance and...