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Robert Cormack of Queen's University Belfast and Robert Osborne of the University of Ulster, who head the universities' joint centre for research on higher education, are known collectively as The...
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How cheats prosper in exams
The president of the British Psychological Society has lashed out at British university examinations, saying that results give a misleading picture of teaching quality and are often an inadequate...
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Delors reveals lifelong ambition
Universities play a key role in a world strategy for lifelong education drawn up by Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission, and a 14-person panel commissioned by Unesco to...
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Willkommen in the Valleys
Modern language departments at the University of Wales, Swansea, are planning to extend their Welsh-medium teaching of European languages. They are bidding for funding to create a Welsh-medium...
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Training programmes fail to boost earnings
Government training programmes have proved successful in helping the unemployed back to work but have done little to improve their earning power, according to a new study for the Department for...
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Artists train to suffer poverty
Higher education and formal training do so little to improve the earning power of artists that there is little economic justification for investing in them, an Arts Council report has concluded....
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Beckett's Reading matter
The Nobel Laureate, who would have been 90 tomorrow, had a rapport with a Reading University professor that resulted in the largest archive of his work in Europe, Tony Tysome reports. If there was...
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Patronising Joe Public
The Government's handling of the BSE issue typifies its lack of faith in people's rationality, argues Brian Wynne. If ever risk assessment experts needed a reminder that what we take as objective...
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Library group builds links on M25 map
The first single guide to the resources, locations, and access arrangements of 30 higher education libraries in the Greater London area has been launched on the World Wide Web. Jean Sykes, deputy...
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Lab dogma disputed
The Research Defence Society said this week that there has been uncritical acceptance of "antivivisectionist dogma". It has launched a campaign to show the role of animal research in medical advances.
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Policy advice
Governments cannot avoid having an energy policy. But British governments have consistently formed policies by their inability to find or take good advice. An example is energy pricing. Rising prices...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Scientists critical of the Government have been enjoying a field day over the latest BSE...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was diagnosed a decade ago after the death of a Kent cow which had become edgy and unable to control its movements. The disease spread from 20 cases...
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The rush to publish
Ned Thomas gives a university press view on the scramble to meet the research assessment deadline. On Thursday March 28, with one working day to go, the last two books we had promised would see the...