Ready to stroll down quality street - at last
The new quality regime for higher education is almost with us. The Quality Assurance Agency and its key customers, the higher education funding councils, including the Scottish funding council, which...
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Business of being allies
Business schools are in the vanguard of the creation of more entrepreneurial universities, so let us use them. says Christopher Grey. Business and management schools are an important part of the...
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In short...
As an ageing academic, never has the horror of advancing years been more graphically brought home to me than by reading that, as a result of Alzheimer's disease, one of Iris Murdoch's favourite...
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I do not believe that my pointing out that Herbert Simon's use of an invalid mathematical argument "completely misses the point" about self-consistent prediction, as claimed by Steven Durlauf in his...
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Tedious science
The two respondents (THES, September 18) to Simon Jenkins's article (THES, September 11) failed to address one of his main points - that students have been voting with their feet and choosing to...
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Tedious science
Do we need a science base? Do we need what Jenkins calls "that defunct concept, a manufacturing base"? Britain's manufacturing exports last year were worth Pounds 170 billion. By comparison, our...
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Hijacking the agenda
Educational research has come in for much criticism recently, but what is involved is not simply a debate about the quality of the work being done. While James Tooley, professor of education at...
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The statement that employers "restrict their recruiting to older universities" ("Power of purse used to drive skill bandwagon", THES, September 18) cannot go unchallenged. Employers may target a...
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Listen to the whistling in the dark
John Randall is spot on in saying that "the best way forward is for institutions to get complaints-handling right first time", as is Dennis Farrington when he suggests the archaic visitor system is "...
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Listen to the whistling in the dark
Self-regulation facilitates friend-of-friend networks, bullying and whitewashing to protect staff careers and commercial viability. What we really need to tackle are the anachronistic notions that...
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A licence to fail
I read with a growing sense of despair about the proposals for a "licence to teach" ("Cash carrot to enforce training", THES, September 11). Organisations such as the Institute for Learning and...
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Non-existent ops
I am surprised that Michael Banner, chair of the UK's Animal Procedure Committee, is reported as being exercised by the question of transplanting pigs' hearts into chimpanzees ("Less death in the lab...
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Black to the future in the classroom
Publishing performance tables of teacher trainers will help boost the number of black teachers, says Anthea Millett. The Teacher Training Agency today published the first national profiles of the...
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Mates past their prime
Veteran research chimps must be saved from extermination, says James Mahoney. For the second time in recent years, laboratory chimpanzees in the United States face a crisis. What will become of...
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Aboard the good ship Learning
Claire Sansom reports on the maiden voyage of a webcast that circles the world. The Internet will carry what could be the largest educational webcast ever next month. Global Learn Day II, a global...