Royal Society calls for teaching boost
THE ROYAL Society has told the Dearing inquiry into higher education that a teaching and learning council should be created to encourage innovative, high-quality teaching in universities, writes Kam...
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Fast-track students lead way
Students on "fast-track" degree courses tend to out-perform their peers on traditional undergraduate programmes, a study has concluded. But they are also more likely to drop out, or to have problems...
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Wise incomprehension
Colin McGinn (THES, April 5) believes that "the only way to avoid being checkmated by consciousness is to assume you do not understand it". He means: what is not understood is that, although we all...
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Tutorial system on the way out
Funding restrictions and the expansion in higher education participation have sounded the death knell for traditional one-on-one student tutoring, a new discussion paper warns. The Higher Education...
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Too few places for Ulster sixth formers
The potential benefits of higher education still outweigh the expense, according to a Northern Ireland study of sixth-formers. But, Tony Gallagher and Bob Cormack from Queen's University and Bob...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
I was bemused to read Alison Utley's article which referred to the AUT's strategy to create a single union for higher education. The presumption behind the editorial was that only academic staff...
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Homerton ushered into Cambridge elite
Homerton College, a specialist teacher training institution in Cambridge, is to become more like other Cambridge colleges after being given the go-ahead to admit students for the university's...
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California regents' row may be copied
University of California president Richard Atkinson last month pushed the issue of affirmative action to the brink of open warfare with his own board of regents. A highly public squabble over his...
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Explain tarot and learn to teach
As manager of the Kingsway Centre and the person responsible for the alternative cultures courses in our leisure programme for this year, I feel I should answer some of the points you made (Opinion,...
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US-type training urged to up output
Britain should develop an American-style mass education system if it is to match the economic productivity performance of the United States, says the National Institute of Economic and Social...
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Don's diary
Friday. Ships sails. Have I got all the Hanukkah candles? What about my prayer book? Is the menorah packed as well? I have been engaged as the rabbi on the QE2 Caribbean Christmas and New Year cruise...
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Eastwards gung ho
Wang Gungwu (THES, December 8) confuses two different arguments. One is that Asian countries must develop an intellectual orientation, possibly through changes in the educational system, which...
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Electric boots heal the sole
Rami Abboud finds the latest fashions in ladies' footwear "horrible". But his concern is clinical rather than aesthetic: he is a biomedical and rehabilitation engineer at Dundee University, and...
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Gaza's eye on future
Paul Jeffrey assesses the mood in Gaza, where Al-Azhar University looks forward to peace, and in shocked Jerusalem Gaza's two higher education institutes, the Islamic University and Al-Azhar...