Staff trained in disability needs
A consortium of four Scottish higher education institutions is getting Pounds 150,000 for a staff development scheme to help students with disabilities. Aberdeen, Stirling and the Robert Gordon...
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How to ... Get groups to work
WHAT - Students can often learn more about their subject by working on tasks in small groups. Sally Brown suggests ways of ironing out the difficulties in teamwork. WHY - Employers and professional...
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A microchip off the old block
Computers could easily replace lectures, says Nick Coleman. Academics only need to write imaginative software that lets the student learn. Is the university lecturer about to relinquish his job to a...
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Funding scandal college to shed staff
Halton College will have to shed a third of its staff following investigations into financial irregularities by the Further Education Funding Council. The board of governors confirmed this week that...
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National Audit Office
The National Audit Office has ordered the Welsh Funding Council and the Welsh Office to strengthen their oversight of further education following a collapse at Wales's largest college. An NAO report...
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Institute of Learning gears up
The Institute of Learning and Teaching has appointed Paul Clark, director of learning and teaching at the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, as its first chief executive. Dr Clark was...
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Hands-on science
(Photograph) - Hands-on science: undergraduates at Cambridge University are mucking in for Science Week with a day-long workshop at the Museum of Zoology entitled 'Crash, Bang, Squelch'. Hundreds of...
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Unions face fees ban
The Australian government is trying to ban universities from collecting student service fees. Universities could face a loss of federal funding if they failed to comply. The government has introduced...
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GM circus comes to town
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee had rarely seen anything like it. On view was Arpad Pusztai, the Aberdeen scientist who caused a media circus when he publicly expressed concerns...
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GM foods
In a new paper on GM foods, Sir Robert May, the government's chief scientific adviser, said: "I have confidence in our precautions relating to food safety, some doubts about how completely we...
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A conduit to visions
The Implied Spider
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Between colour lines
Mindfield - Hate Thy Neighbour
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Nazi covering his tracks with a smokescreen of words
The Wild Card of Reading
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The quantum measurement problem
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Measurement Process
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Goldilocks goes cosmic
Astrophysical Techniques - The Physics of the Interstellar Medium - Introductory Astronomy