Scots take the high road for three years
Further education in Scotland can now see much of the road ahead for the next three years. Clear signposts have emerged from the comprehensive spending review, the paper on Lifelong Learning,...
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Welsh not filling industry's skills gap
Further education has been hailed the driving force behind the regeneration of the Welsh economy. But fears are growing that the sector is failing to produce the highly skilled workforce demanded by...
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Science of the appliance
Don Norman's aim is to make companies produce more user-friendly products. Tony Durham met him Don Norman cannot ignore a badly designed door, tap or light switch. He is likely to photograph it,...
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Once upon a lifetime
The story of a life, from womb to tomb, reconstructs a past, but is it history? asks Ben Pimlott Let's make no bones about it, many historians look down witheringly at biographers, as much for their...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the weekly schedules for TV and radio programmes of academic relevance. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Stand by for first world war information overload, as the BBC...
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The last great liberal
'One of the great minds of the 20th century' or 'unintelligible in several languages'? Michael Ignatieff asks how the world will remember Isaiah Berlin A year ago, prime minister Tony Blair wrote a...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... Jules Pretty explained why we should ban genetically modified crops. Adeela Warley Public information manager Friends of the Earth I would like to register my personal...
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Leaks that go with the information flow
Technology is about to transform the way we buy and use learning, Nigel Paine says The clock is ticking for learning in the 21st century. To be successful we have to transform the relationship...
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A snog-free zone
A sense of humour is essential in maintaining classroom discipline, says Sally Brown During a lecture you are suddenly confronted with a pair of entwined students kissing passionately. Behind them a...
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Ulster unease over Queen's
Northern Ireland's new Assembly has voiced concern over the massive revamp planned at Queen's University. But managers at the Belfast campus have refused to take part in a joint delegation to the...
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Pounds 500 prize for teaching
The University of Bradford is making a series of awards for excellence in teaching. Nominations from current and former students will be considered by a selection panel which will make...
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Pay reflects school ties
Graduates from state schools earn less than their privately educated counterparts even when they are the same age and sex and have read the same subject at the same university and achieved the same...
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Independent school students are more likely to be offered a place at the University of Oxford
* Two academics from the University of Oxford have found that independent school students are 20 per cent more likely to be offered a place at the university than state school students. They made the...
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State pupils gain more firsts
A separate studyby the Warwick researchers strengthens the claim thatstudents from state schools are more likely to get a first than those from independent schools, all other things being equal, as...
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Education sights are set high
Sixty per cent of 21-year-olds and 50 per cent of adults should possess at least 2 A levels, NVQ level 3, an Advanced GNVQ or the equivalent of one of these by 2002, the Department for Education and...