Quality must note technical advances
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, this week warned that quality assessments must soon begin to take greater account of the use of novel teaching and...
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Charities form patent protector
The Wellcome Trust is to join with the Cancer Research Campaign's technology company to form a firm to deal with patenting and intellectual property rights from academic research funded by both...
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Employers' opinion shifts on NVQ
Training and Enterprise Councils have too much control in the delivery of National Vocational Qualifications, according to an Institute of Employment Studies survey of employers' opinions. TECs have...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Salford academics sicker than rest
Health scientists at University College, Salford have uncovered some alarming facts about the well-being of their colleagues. A survey of mental and physical health on campus has revealed that staff...
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Watchdogs criticise GNVQ standards
As the CBI meets in Birmingham, Simon Targett reports on the latest developments in training. A Government watchdog this week issued a stinging indictment of the progress of the new vocational A...
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Scots fear Higher Still mishmash
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish Office minister for education, said this week that Government plans to reform school-leaving examinations do not assume a change in Scotland's broad-based four-...
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Principal's wife gets her job on merit alone
An Edinburgh University inquiry has dismissed allegations that a post was "conjured up" for Sheena Sutherland, wife of the university principal, Stewart Sutherland, as a precondition of his accepting...
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PC football
Somebody clearly feels nostalgia for that brief transition period of history when the polytechnics were independent of local authorities, but had yet to attain university status. Spotted in last week...
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Collision course
A semi-naked man lying on a bed of nails and under three concrete blocks forms the cover photo of the latest Cern Courier, the particle physics journal. The man, who is about to be hit with a...
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Miffed amateur
Tom McCool, chief executive of the Scottish Vocational Council, speaking at a conference on the implications of school examination reforms, admitted that one of the reasons he hated having to follow...
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Touting Taylors
Is there no limit to this man's talents? asks a reader who spotted a Stage advert for Laurie Taylor: The Ideal Cabaret for your function: Sings Your Favourite Sinatra and Manilow Songs ? Probably not...
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Dead heat
This week's award for timing goes to the University of Essex, whose press release about its involvement in the Alfa Latin American student exchange network (see above) coincided with a story in its...
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Mr Lobby
A good second in the same class is Public Policy Review, which dropped on journalists' desks with an article titled "Lobbyists: Where would MPs be without them?"
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Essex is rewarded for its Latin link
Essex University is to be the British link in a planned European Union-funded Latin American exchange programme. Vice chancellor Ron Johnston has signed a letter of intent signalling Essex's...