Out of step
All indicators are that higher education is changing: numbers of part-time and mature students are growing all the time. Boundaries between higher and further education are getting smaller, with each...
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Get in the real world
It is refreshing to see that the Department of Trade and Industry is finally coming around to the view law teachers have been advocating for some time ("RAE faces axe", THES, October 29). If the...
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Competitive rents
Frosty rebuke, what nonsense! ("How they spend our rent", THES, October 29). Eleanor O'Keeffe accuses me of telling students they have no right to know how colleges spend their money. Far from it....
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Stick to quality
The report on the Quality Assurance Agency's qualification blueprint filled me with dread ("New rules will scrap 'negative' awards", THES, October 22). While there may be a need to standardise...
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Stick to quality
I am president of a college where students earn what we call associates degrees. I hope British institutions contemplating associates degrees think beyond the narrowly vocational ("Two-year...
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Professional balance
As chairman of an organisation that accredits higher education awards on behalf of the accountancy profession, I am concerned that professional recognition should not be seen as undermining academic...
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World watch
The European Commission is spending E8 million (Pounds 5 million) on staging a European Year of Languages in 2001. It will involve campaigns and grassroots projects to promote foreign language...
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A duty to address the 'ordinary'
The article "Why engineers must go back to nature" (THES, October 29) raises a number of important issues for educators across a whole range of subject areas. A couple of observations... First, case...
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Biblical fictions
Even though both reviewer and author happen to be professional astronomers, it is surprising that Owen Gingerich ("Born under a wandering star", THES, October 22) seems unaware that few, if any, New...
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Colleges plan for a new sector
A group of further education colleges is seeking government backing to create what amounts to a new polytechnic sector. More than a dozen colleges, each of which receives a substantial part of its...
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High scores let teaching off the hook
Fears that university teaching quality assessments are being rendered irrelevant by the rise of gamesmanship and the work of self-serving "cartels" of assessors have been fuelled by new analysis....
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HE heads angered by delay to degree awarding powers
College heads are "frustrated beyond belief" by the revelation that it will take years for higher education colleges to be given degree-awarding powers, writes Alison Goddard. Dorma Urwin, chair of...
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Drug offenders denied aid
BOSTON People convicted of drugs crime will be banned from receiving federal financial aid for university tuition in the United States from next summer. The ban runs for a minimum of a year from the...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Paul Magrs argued that creative writing modules should be taught to students in all departments Mark Robinson Programme director Arts and Humanities Centre for Lifelong...
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Study shows quality does not inform choices
Students and employers largely ignore official teaching quality information when choosing a university or recruiting a graduate, according to a study published by the funding councils this week. The...