Teachers must learn too
LIFELONG learning campaigners have produced recommendations for adult education including calls for radical changes in teaching theory and practice. A Campaign for Learning report, produced from a...
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Reviews 'damage' staff morale
THE GOVERNMENT's privatisation review of public sector research establishments is damaging the productivity and morale of scientists, according to Sir Aaron Klug, president of the Royal Society....
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V-cs knock Scots for lone stance
VICE CHANCELLORS have warned that quality assurance across the United Kingdom is at risk because of the Scottish funding council's failure to join the new quality agency. The Committee of Scottish...
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Ancient Chinese got to heart of problem
MORE than 1,000 years ago the Chinese used a herbal preparation to ease heart pains that had a very similar effect to modern-day nitroglycerine. Information contained in a medical document discovered...
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Silver star
A silver lining has appeared amid the financial gloom of the further education sector. In Deptford. Lewisham College's new Pounds 12 million Deptford Bridge campus, recently opened by Labour leader...
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My mate David
Alumnus to be proud of No. 91 is determined to leave no stone unturned in his bid to become the archetypal eccentric scientist. David Bellamy, the much-loved hirsute expert on things that live under...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...
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0.85 seeks 0.7 for 2.4
What we all want in our perfect partner, says Devendra Singh, is an ideal waist-hip ratio. David Charter checks out his figures Devendra Singh has a high waist-hip ratio. He is living proof (thanks...
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Should you choose to accept it...
Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government dogma? Researchers beware: the Department of Trade and Industry wants you as a new recruit, warns John Griffith. We are facing...
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