Why I think the web will alter human evolution
A few million years ago our ancestors let loose a new evolutionary process. By learning to imitate each other, they unwittingly created the first memes. Those memes - the habits, skills, songs and...
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The QAA's thoroughly bad Apel
A code of practice section on accrediting prior learning dismays Geoffrey Alderman. It is amazing what you come across on the streets of Manhattan these days. I recently happened upon the draft of a...
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Free hand that draws inspiration from peers
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
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Students give top marks to the trained
Giving lecturers teacher training benefits everyone, according to an international study by Graham Gibbs and Martin Coffey. Most new lecturers in the United Kingdom are expected to take an in-service...
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Answer to a question of trust?
Can continuing professional development in fields such as medicine restore public faith? asks Claire Sanders. At a time when scandals such as the Bristol baby deaths and the collapse of the Bank of...
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In-vitro drug testing puts spin into Spain
Spain has the expertise to thrive in the world of spin-offs but red tape chokes the way, Rebecca Warden reports. Spain's first science park is in business. Eight pharmaceutical and medical companies...
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Ugandan president drags feet over law
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has failed to appoint chancellors at the country's four public universities despite a new law that requires him to do so. Historically, the head of state has been...
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£5bn needed to match rivals
The Treasury has advised universities to stress their role in Britain's future prosperity rather than the funding gap when they bid for money in the spending review later this month. New studies...
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NEWS Academic refugees:what will the new system do for them? FEATURES Sally Pomme Clayton journeys to Alaska in search of the ancient art of storytelling Research: Bath's archaeological catastrophe...
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For the record
UK retention rate is second only to Japan The National Audit Office will praise the university sector for absorbing large increases in student numbers without corresponding increases in funding in a...
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Hearing problems, seeing solutions
Social Work and Social Problems - Understanding Social Work - Constructive Social Work
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Searching for causes and codes of complexity that allow squirrels to fly to the 'adjacent possible'
Cosmic Evolution - Investigations
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In thrall to the Minotaur's art
Picasso's dazzling capacity for reinvention consumed many in its creative fire - not least the muses who ignited it. Henry Meyric Hughes writes. Pablo Picasso dominated the international artistic...
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There's no place for home
Keeping the Faith
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Trust me, I'm a philanthropist
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