EU court rules on cross-border grants
A recent European Court of Justice ruling has reinforced the entitlement of students to receive state support to study in one European Union country even though their parents may be working in...
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GPs run short of the meningitis vaccine
There are growing fears that the meningitis student vaccination campaign is in disarray because of vaccine supply problems. New students are being urged to go to their GPs to be vaccinated against...
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Agony aunt
Is peer observation a useful tool to improve teaching or an excuse to spy on lecturers? A With the expectation of demonstrable high quality at diminishing cost that pervades higher education at...
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Wolverhampton University may be forced to withdraw from teacher education
Wolverhampton University may be forced to withdraw from teacher education when a damning inspection report on its BEd courses is published in October. A draft report obtained by The THES by schools...
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Future bleak for four-year BEds
Experts are warning there is no future for four-year undergraduate teacher training courses in primary education. They say new funding regimes for initial teacher training are the final nail in the...
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Making 'herstory' their story
It's time women's history became part of a wider gender history, says Penelope Corfield. Should the flourishing field of women's history become part of a wider gender history? Yes, it should. Women's...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... ...Joseph Schwartz argued that psychoanalysis merits academic and scientific attention. David Livingstone Smith Goldsmiths College There can be little doubt that...
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Israeli partners abandon UK unis
British universities are being abandoned by their franchise partners in Israel following a series of disputes over "British degrees for sale". Two private Israeli colleges that deliver franchised...
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Lecturer with MS takes Surrey to industrial tribunal
A disabled lecturer whose current contract was more than halved two years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis has taken his university to an industrial tribunal. George Mowat-Brown, 51, a...
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Research chief faces acid test
The new research chief at the European Commission is facing a resignation call even before he has officially replaced disgraced commissioner Edith Cresson. Philippe Busquin, who is expected to be...
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Hague 'shows his sophistication' in rebranding the Tories
William Hague's marketing of the Tories is more sophisticated than Labour's, delegates to the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference at Nene University College will hear this week. Whereas...
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Professionals eager to join the doctorate ranks
Professional doctorates have mushroomed since they started seven years ago, a nationwide survey of universities has revealed. Researchers from Brighton University found that between 1998 and 1999...
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Medics go on alert for stress spotting
Dundee University's medical students are logging how alert and optimistic they feel in a pioneering study that aims to cut their risk of divorce, suicide and alcoholism in later life. Nick Halpin of...
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Whitehall split over Hinxton bid
A row has broken out between the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions over the recent rejection of the Wellcome Trust's planning...
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Jenny Osborn-Jones outlines her experiences as a disabled student
(Photograph) - Jenny Osborn-Jones, aged 22, is in the fourth year of a degree in health studies at the University of Central Lancashire. In a wheelchair since infancy, she chose the university for...