Sometimes learning on the job is the best way
Kam Patel talks to three under-graduates who sing the praises of an industrial placement For chemical engineer Fesil Mushtaq, a year spent in industry was a success. It proved to him that he could do...
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Labouring for more experience
Work experience is now vital for undergraduates, but are universities properly preparing students for the world of work? Alison Utley reports Preparing students for employment is not necessarily the...
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Time for a revolution
The Institute for Learning and Teaching must abandon traditional thinking to improve lecturing in universities, says Graham Gibbs The Dearing report recommended the establishment of a national...
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Stop justifying the unacceptable
Why do academics continue to cling on to teaching practices that are outdated and do not work? David Jacques argues that it is time to stop believing the myths Resistance to change often comes across...
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Second strike threat
STRIKES could hit universities for the second consecutive winter as lecturers push government for an independent pay review body, writes Alan Thomson. Delegates at the Association of University...
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Oxbridge turns to Robin Hood
Oxford University is taking legal advice on whether it can levy money from richer colleges to help pay for their worse-off neighbours. It is also consulting lawyers on how far charity law would stop...
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Cambridge vice chancellor Alec Broers addressing the issue of college fees
Addressing the issue of college fees in his annual speech at the Senate House, Cambridge vice chancellor Alec Broers said the university needed to be increasingly self-reliant since its dependence on...
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Fees rebels swept away
THE government routed tuition fee rebels at the Labour party conference this week after pledging to open the door to an additional higher and further education 500,000 students in the next five years...
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Poachers in industry
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton The University for Industry must live up to the "for industry" part of its title if it is to have a real...
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Oxbridge fears college fee crisis
Higher education: Many elite institutions want students to pay more to offset funding cuts OXBRIDGE colleges will ask students to make up cash shortfalls if the Government ceases to pay college fees...
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Late principal built business
Further education: colleges are fighting funding cuts by expanding links with local business and rural communities Swindon College is still reeling from the shock of principal Clive Brain's death in...
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Landlords cash in on students
STUDENTS living off-campus in Canadian cities are suffering an acute accommodation crisis. In Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto students are paying exorbitant rents to live, often illegally, in cramped...
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Blunkett's 'capital' idea is attacked
A KEY idea that has shaped the education secretary's thinking is to be denounced as a fallacy in a new national strategy for lifelong learning published next week. Frank Coffield, professor of...
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Grant delay hits Scots
Scottish universities and colleges are being forced to make emergency loans to students after delays by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland in processing grants. As most higher education...
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Most first wages will fall into loan payback zone
LESS than 4 per cent of graduate starting salaries fall below the future government threshold of Pounds 10,000 for repaying student loans, according to research by the Higher Education Careers...