Governors should give research a chance
COLLEGE governors and senior managers should help develop a research culture in further education by easing bureaucratic control, a principal has said. Bob Fryer, principal of Northern College and...
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Drawn to dereliction
(Photograph) - Drawn to dereliction: Sheffield University student Amanda Willoughby has won the Royal Horticultural Society gold medal for her botanical illustration of plants in the urban wasteland...
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Welsh FE gets 11% cut
THE PUBLIC expenditure settlement for further education in Wales, which makes real-terms cuts even beyond those planned by the Conservative government, will make life "incredibly difficult in terms...
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Andrews predicts wave of mergers
WELSH further and higher education is likely to see more mergers and collaboration agreements in the next few years, with the support of the funding councils for the respective sectors. John Andrews...
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Cobbled together
(Photograph) - Cobbled together: Kathryn Coventry, part-time lecturer at the University of Plymouth's school of civil and structural engineering, could provide information for mortgage lenders...
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Queen's, Ulster take out contracts
DOZENS of young contract researchers have lost their jobs in Northern Ireland's two universities over recent months, and more job loses are imminent. In an attack on cuts to research funding in the...
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Prospering cheats on the up
THE EXPANSION of higher education has created a "worrying ambiguity" about cheating, a conference organised by the Society for Research into Higher Education heard last week. Peter Ashworth, head of...
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TVU mixed ability classes 'a threat to standards'
STAFF representatives at troubled Thames Valley University have questioned the findings of a quality report amid claims that mixed-ability classes involving diploma and degree students are...
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Lecturer rejects 'copying' allegation
A SENIOR lecturer at Plymouth University has been accused of copying from other academics' work in his 1986 PhD thesis. Plymouth vice chancellor John Bull has called on the University of the West of...
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Singled out
Talk of academic freedom will be much in the air as the Teaching and Higher Education Bill makes its way through Parliament, but the government doubtless wishes that some of its recruits from the...
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Roll play
Bottom of the class for Teacher Training Agency chief executive Anthea Millett. The teacher trainer-critic's annual chief executive's lecture last week was accompanied by slides peppered with some of...
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Scientific vacuum
Several research council chief executives last week told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee they knew little of the workings of the Council for Science and Technology, set up after...
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Tenure on hold
Good of Tessa Blackstone to appear at last week's AUT meeting in Manchester on the role of Unesco in higher education. The United Kingdom having rejoined as one of the new Labour government's first...
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Timely bust
Academics and the police don't always get on, but we suspect Amsterdam economics professor Rick van der Ploeg must now think quite warmly of the City of London force. His Centre for Economic Policy...
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Lattrell thinker
Alumnus to be proud of No 152 rejoices in the magnificent name of Lattrell Sprewell. A professional basketball player, he was in the employ of the Golden State Warriors, but now has to rein in the...