Guide to the job market
The National Centre for Work Experience has published a booklet for students explaining what kind of skills employers want them to have learnt from work experience. They include the ability to lead...
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Why I...believe men would take a contraceptive pill
Fred Wu. Senior lecturer in medicine at the University of Manchester, who is leading a research programme aimed at developing a mass-market male contraceptive Apart from condoms and vasectomy, there...
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Rise and fall of great subjects
The popularity of disciplines waxes and wanes. Which will still be taught in 2050, asks Adrian Furnham Which academic disciplines will have ceased to exist 50 years from now? And what new departments...
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Copiers caught red-handed by copyrighters
A special operation mounted by the Copyright Licensing Agency has uncovered large-scale illegal photocopying of books by students in central London. Lawyers acting for the CLA have told a Bloomsbury...
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Job skills built in to degrees
Ministers are to press universities to teach basic employability skills as an "explicit" part of the curriculum. The recommendation will be made in a report out next week. Institutions that fail to...
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Agony Aunt
Q) What is the legal position on photocopying materials provided through the internet and distributing them to students as teaching aids?; Raymonde Kilpatrick research and compliance manager,...
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How to... Give students the big picture
What - `Learning outcomes' are the latest buzzwords in higher education teaching. Phil Race looks behind the jargon and explains why everyone needs to get up to speed. Why - Learning outcomes give...
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Centre is now open
City University has opened the first stage of an open learning centre in its department of continuing education. Teaching staff are able to refer students to the centre for academic guidance and...
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Education in the home
Research from the Institute of Education in London has concluded that home education is a viable and successful alternative to school. Alan Thomas, visiting fellow at the institute, has studied ten...
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Trainees learn ropes
Staffordshire University has started management training for academic line managers using tests designed for Olympic swimmers and involving team building exercises with ropes. The programme aims to...
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Course for postgrads
The Open University has launched a course to train postgraduate students to teach undergraduates. The university hopes that the distance-learning course will become a key component of the Institute...
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Learning on internet
Stirling University is building up partnerships to promote distance learning through the internet. It has joined Glasgow Caledonian University in launching a new MSc in lifelong learning, which is...
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Staff face life ban for Islamic activities
Turkish academics face a life-long ban from their universities and the loss of all academic titles if they engage in "anti-Ataturk activities", which are held to be attempts to challenge the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose central character is long-lived and trans-gendered... "He - for there could be no doubt...
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Confounding the mystagogues
Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights