Drop your standards
Education's obsession with standardised testing is at odds with the character of the new economy, argues Robert Reich. The latest rage in education on both sides of the Atlantic is standardised tests...
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A poor practice that helps no one
Fixed contracts are bad for researchers and research, but they could be on the way out, writes Sally Baldwin. A recent report ( THES , April ) that universities are second only to catering in the...
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What's the next step?
The research councils have mapped out their strategies for exploring post-genome science. Caroline Davis reveals what they plan to do. Five months after the government announced that it would make...
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How to: Stop class canoodling
If you want to hold students' attention, get them involved in planning their studies, says Deborah Lee. Sleeping, watching portable televisions, conducting mobile telephone conversations, reading...
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Tutor tip: bring your own mug
Phil Race swapped a chemistry lab for a classroom and found he needed more than coloured chalk. Alison Utley reports Persuading several hundred students in a colossal classroom that your lecture is...
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Agony Aunt: why is pushing students into research mode such a hard slog?
Q I do not want to spoon-feed students, but why do I feel that pushing them into research mode is such a hard slog? A For the vast majority of undergraduates, the long-term shift into research mode...
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City Business School seeks global profile
City University Business School plans to challenge the London Business School's position as the capital's only world-class player in business education. The school's new dean, Lord Currie of...
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UK cuts funding to foreign nurses
New rules on bursaries for nursing students could drive away thousands of potential overseas applicants at a time when there is a serious shortage of nursing staff. The Department of Health is set to...
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Health check for science
The Office of Science and Technology has commissioned a report into underinvestment in the university research structure. It will look at the problems that remain in the United Kingdom's science base...
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Berlusconi may stall university reforms
A victory for media mogul Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's general elections on Sunday could stall the country's university reform programme, but rectors hope it is too late to halt the process. Leaders...
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Double vision
Daphne Todd won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Painters' annual exhibition with her painting of Marilyn Strathern, mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. The exhibition is...
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Latest international news
Sniper fire closes Chechen university Classes at the University of Grozny, in the Chechen capital, have been suspended after three Russian servicemen came under fire from unknown gunmen as they left...
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Higher education awards
University of Southampton David Barker , director of the MRC environmental epidemiology unit, has been awarded the Prince Mahodol Award 2000 for outstanding and exemplary contributions to the...
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Latest UK news
Tory manifesto promises university autonomy One-off cash endowments for British universities would free them from political interference and uncertainty over funding, the Conservative election...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Research pressure groups, such as Save British Science, are determined that science should not be left on the sidelines during the general election campaigns. Riken, a publicly funded...