Governors confess to self-assessment failure
College governing boards have admitted to serious weaknesses in their processes of self-assessment, according to the results of a survey published this week. In the first national study of quality in...
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Funding should be linked to fair play
I was very interested to read your coverage of Gasper Vahramian's battle through the legal system to obtain his City and Guilds photography course certificate (THES, July 12). I noted both the time...
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Have a cigarette, you're sacked
College managers forced to sack staff are advised to choose the middle of the day, the middle of the week and an office where smoking is allowed. These tips are included in guidelines published this...
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Lab culture
What is an anthropologist doing in a genetics lab? Jon Turney asks Paul Rabinow to explain. If I was patient enough, I always learned something from things they didn't like." So says Paul Rabinow...
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Baa-baa black sheep flock to vets' aid
A flock of Scottish black-faced sheep is helping scientists at Glasgow University's veterinary school in their battle to beat the scourge of parasites in the animal. The research team, headed by Mike...
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Locked Net mania
Internet enthusiasts who attended City University's recent NetMedia conference found that academic space is even more complex than cyberspace. The only way to the Geary Lecture Theatre where many...
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He had hatred thrust upon him
Gerard DeGroot argues that we still need Field Marshal Haig to be a great villain. On February 3 1928, the British paid their respects to a departed hero. Crowds lined London streets as the funeral...
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Fear under the volcano
I am writing to comment on the short item in Antithesis (THES, July 12) concerning the role of the British volcanologists working in the Caribbean. The article was ill-informed, flippant and seemed...
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Alcoholic proof
While they are unable to match the spectacular, if unplanned, firework display staged by the European Space Agency a few weeks ago, the good folk at Cern have always prided themselves on having...
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FEFC ombudsman
The Further Education Funding Council has appointed an independent ombudsman to deal with complaints. John Bevan, a former director of education for the Inner London Education Authority and former...
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Autumn of discontent
Autumn strikes look set to hit old and new universities for the first time as unions join forces in protest at "paltry" pay offers and higher education funding cuts. Tom Wilson, assistant general...
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Fables from a Russian lair
In the last of our series on favourite films, Keith Griffiths savours the richness of Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales. The Russian filmmaker Yuri Norstein has made only a handful of short animated...
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Australians share sandwich with Europe
Australian students will undertake work-integrated-learning with industry and business organisations in Europe, while European students will do the same in Australia through a co-operative programme...
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Benefit fraudsters worried, not greedy
Disillusionment with the welfare state rather than selfishness is pushing people into fiddling their benefits, according to University of Luton researchers. Interviews with 35 self-confessed benefit...