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The issue of teaching teachers to teach is one of the most important facing academe. Recent letters seem to have missed the point I raised (Letters, May 6), namely that there is no proper research...
The issue of teaching teachers to teach is one of the most important facing academe. Recent letters seem to have missed the point I raised (Letters, May 6), namely that there is no proper research...
Research indicates that packed classes reduce academic attainment. Rebecca Attwood reports
Zero Marx for Gove’s time warp (again)Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (“Enemy of promise”, 13 June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists...
University leaders have warned of the dangers of "turning back the clock" on student numbers and prioritising low-cost courses after the government told them to prepare for contraction and "deep cuts...
Graham Gibbs describes support in a student survey for more teacher training as "striking" ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28). What is really striking is the very thin basis for...
I spent many years at a "teaching-only" institution with no core funding for research before the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES, March 14). All academics were scholarly, about half...
One has to sympathise with the teaching-quality problems faced by Graham Gibbs' daughters at their research university ("Research strategy limits the teaching of students", THES , November 29). One...
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
Efforts to inform student 'customers' reliant on reputation, not quality. Rebecca Attwood reports
Genetics firms battle over chickens University of Georgia-based AviGenics has filed a lawsuit in the United States to prevent Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and US biotech firm Viragen from pursuing...
Fears grow for teaching development as budget reductions are confirmed, Rebecca Attwood writes
The front-page shocker reveals more about confused academic and journalistic attitudes than it does about Liverpool John Moores University or academic standards. First, the only reason there was a...
Geoff Hall , former director of learning programmes at the Learning and Skills Council, has been appointed principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham. The University of Oxford has...
Geoff Hall , former director of learning programmes at the Learning and Skills Council, has been appointed principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham. The University of Oxford has...