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  1. Governors don flak jackets

    QUALITY assurance, franchising, downsizing: the academic world is prone to latch on to the latest management mantras long after the private sector and is inclined to have trouble handling them....

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  2. Labouring under a new challenge

    The recent report from the House of Commons education and employment select committee recognises that there is a teacher recruitment problem developing that will, if the trend continues, make it...

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  3. Long on vision, short on cash

    So further education is to get only an additional Pounds 83 million next year to tide it over while the government completes its spending review and hones plans to rebalance post-16 education to...

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  4. Time to break the grip of the old boys' club

    A modernised, more anonymous process of application for research funds is required, writes John Smith. The system of allocating research funds through peer review is one of those "old world"...

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  5. RAE goes Forth and multiplies

    A consultation paper on the future of the Research Assessment Exercise has been issued. Bahram Bekhradnia describes its purpose. The research assessment exercise has some of the characteristics of...

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  6. Quality drive blunted by cuts

    Colleges' efforts to improve standards and access were checked this year simply because of cash cuts and financial worries, according to the annual Further Education Funding Council inspection report...

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  7. Speaking Volumes: Gore Vidal's Julian

    As an adolescent in the west of Scotland I was something of a historical trainspotter, able to list all the kings and queens of England, though not, oddly enough, those of Scotland, and able to...

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