AUT in contract fight
Lecturers' leaders in the old universities are campaigning to recruit and improve the position of contract research staff. The Association of University Techers says that despite many union...
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Modular motivation found
Students on modular A level courses are better motivated, harder working, and more likely to gain high grades than their peers taking traditional A levels, according to a report released last week. A...
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Here beginneth the next lesson
Leadership is the Church of England's latest buzzword - insofar as it tolerates such trendy terms. Last week, the word was on every Right Reverend's lips after the Turnbull commission on...
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Dons take lessons in lecturing
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...
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Scotland avoids another brain drain
Scotland has avoided the brain drain that was expected to follow the recovery from the 1992 recession, according to a survey on graduate employment. The study by the Scottish Graduate Careers...
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Nothing new in schools' scheme
New school-centred teacher training schemes are too much like those run by higher education institutions, according to a report published this week. In-house courses managed by schools consortia have...
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Graduate jobs boost
Big recruiters are anticipating better times ahead for ambitious graduate job- seekers, according to a study by Sussex University-based Institute of Employment Studies. Companies are expecting a busy...
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Economic dry
Alumni to be proud of no 10: Trevor Newton, the Yorkshire Water chief whose personal hygiene became the subject of disbelieving national scrutiny last week, may or may not have learned his unique...
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Don't panic
(Photograph) - Linda Cowan, senior information and recruitment officer at the University of Abertay Dundee, shows off the university's new automated inquiry system on the World Wide Web. Prospective...
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Horse player
Does departing HEFCE chief Graeme Davies have an unrevealed enthusiasm for four-legged friends? A few weeks before his arrival as vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow, the place is raising...
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Genuine article
While most university libraries complain that the cuts are robbing them of books to put on their shelves, Aberdeen University has shown unusual generosity. Rolf Rehberg, a historian from Mecklenburg'...
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Different strokes
The latest term of abuse among US academics, according to psychologist Stuart Anstiss, is a "Monet" - "someone who looks good from a distance but a mess from close up". He told a meeting that he had...
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Bolognese mix-up
Nice to know that Scottish universities will acknowlege their organisational debt to the Italian university system - whose Bologna-style student-led model they adopted several hundred years ago in...
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True blue Labour
Always a handy source of unlikely information, the PUSH Which University guide reveals that Warwick University's famous alumni include "David Davis (Labour MP)". Odd this. He thinks he is a...
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Disqualified
We can think of lots of reasons why one might want to be critical of Brian Mawhinney, the abrasive chairman of the Conservative Party, but a recent assertion in the Daily Mail that "he insists on...