Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. My daughter has just completed a course at Thames Valley University and Anna Tobin's...
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Quality gripes fail to stick
The Further Education Funding Council handled 26 complaints about the quality of college education last year. Grievances came from parents complaining their children had been wrongly expelled,...
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Audit alert
The National Audit Office confirmed on Wednesday that it is monitoring an investigation launched by the Department for Education and Employment's European Social Fund Unit into what the DfEE...
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Not one of them
Historian Jonathan Clark exudes an air of patrician gentility, but the feeling she arouses in his peers are not always so exquisite. Simon Targett talks to a controversial conservative. Jonathan...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Anna Tobin's account deserves better than the reply by Alan Macdonald (THES, August 2)....
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Name names, v-cs ordered
Nigerian vice chancellors are under orders to name all staff involved in the five-month-old university strike, according to the academics' union. The union has discovered a secret memo from Munzali...
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Imitators follow Imperial lead
Masters degrees in science communication are springing up across the country as science faculties encourage students to develop their communication skills. The grandaddy of them all is Imperial...
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Islamic extremist threat to gays
Fundamentalist Islamic groups pose the most serious threat to the safety of gay and lesbian staff and students on university and college campuses in Britain, a report says. Fighting Extremist...
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American graffiti rules
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
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All-Russian foundation cuts red tape
Russia's first home-grown training foundation, designed to encourage the creation of a quality market-place for business, management and public finance education, has set up stall in Moscow and...
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Doleful effort
Alumnus to be proud of No 62 is American politician Alfonse d'Amato, senator (Republican) from the state of New York. As chairman of the devastatingly successful Dole for President campaign, Senator...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Anna Tobin provided an articulate case for arguing that "students' needs have low...
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Newcastle bairn
Highly expensive centre forward Alan Shearer is not the only new arrival to hit Newcastle in the last couple of weeks. Just as welcome and equally surprising to his parents, if rather less costly, is...