Flexibility key to quality
A FLEXIBLE system for monitoring standards in higher education is about to be unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency. Its consultation paper, to be issued to institutions on Monday, is expected to...
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Year of living diversely for UCL postgrads
PHD STUDENTS at a London college are to be given a helping hand under a scheme offering them a true interdisciplinary training and the funds to afford it. From this year University College Londonis...
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Good with the chalk, then say 'cheese'
THEIDEA of showing video footage of star lecturers to give all students an experience of outstanding teaching is outdated and could do m ore harm than good, according to learning experts. In its...
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Who gets the thumbs up?
What makes a lecturer a star among his or her students? Alison Utley asked some Bradford University students for their views Caroline Welsh, an undergraduate at Bradford University, thought filmed...
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Wrexham college aspires to a title
THE NORTH East Wales Institute is set to become the University College of Wales, Wrexham, provided that its application for university college status as a member of the University of Wales is...
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On best behaviour
THE government's green paper for lifelong learning will "fall short" of its key purpose, according to the Institute of Education. The plans focus on basic skills at the expense of emerging "workplace...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast DLit: Maeve Binchy, novelist and journalist with The Irish Times; Roy Foster, professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford. DMedSc: Henrietta Campbell, chief...
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Chairs
University of Dundee Mike Kerr, former reader, microbiology; Georgina Follett, head of the school of design; Steve Partridge, head of the school of television and imaging; Colin Watts, reader,...
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Appointments
Canterbury Christ Church College Penny Kimber, former self-employed consultant, has been appointed head of external relations. City University Richard Nichols, the lord mayor of London, former master...
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Exam probe secrecy
THE University of Ulster has asked to see the results of an investigation into an exams blunder that left almost 1,000 prospective students in limbo last August. But the Northern Ireland Council for...
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That sums it up
Elements of Logic Via Numbers and Sets - Elementary Number Theory - Introductory Mathematics - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering - Basic Linear Algebra
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Dreaming uninspired
A Gift Imprisoned
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Revival of the fittest
Dramma Per Musica
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A neurotic at the keyboard
Glenn Gould
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Time marked by a shutter click
Pix, Number Two