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PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
The daunting task of rescuing Thames Valley University may go to Kenneth Barker, the 65-year-old vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, who was due to retire next month. It is understood that...
Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston cast a critical eye over the league tables published today When it comes to league tables, people rarely sit on the fence. In university press releases they are...
Continuum Contemporaries
Has the proportion of good degrees awarded by universities changed? Nicola Bright, Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston examine the claim that institutions are guilty of grade inflation. Almost all...
Nursing acceptances increase 18 per cent There will be many more student nurses this autumn after an 18 per cent rise in people accepting places compared with last year, according to figures from the...
Edinburgh, 28 October 2002 It is a great pleasure and a great honour for me to be able to speak in such a prestigious setting as the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Above all, I should like to thank the...
Hourly paid staff will soon have the right to claim their treatment is unfair. Amanda Hart urges lecturers to use the law "After 19 years' part-time service I am still not allowed to have a desk of...
Suicides among the bright young things of Oxford and Cambridge attract a great deal of media attention, but are the rates in fact any higher than for students elsewhere? Claire Sanders reports In...
Environment and Development Economics
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The Passing of an Illusion
University of Southampton DSc: David Rhind, incoming vice-chancellor of City University, director-general of the Ordnance Survey, visiting professor in the university's department of geography; The...
Monday Long flight south overnight with a group of colleagues to Mauritius for the summer school of a degree programme we offer there through flexible learning. We are the first flight allowed in for...
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...