A fine mess
Glasgow University's newsletter reports that a copy of The Times, dated April 14, 1937, has just been delivered to the university library. This turns out to be the library's own copy, presumably...
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Pot shot
Students would naturally be expected to object to strippograms on the grounds of political correctness. But strippogram Sid Robertson, interviewed in Edinburgh University's student newspaper, reveals...
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Mission to serve
Perish the sexist thought that Alexandra Burslem, soon to become Britain's seventh female university vice chancellor, will spend an overly long amount of time worrying about the dress-code for her...
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W.H.A.T???
Evidence for those who fear that the world of education is suffering from Compulsive Acronym Syndrome (CAS?) comes with the handlist Acronyms and Initialisms in Education (AIE), produced by the...
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He'll always have Paris
Alumnus to be proud of No 90 is the founder of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which has been holding large parts of the Lima diplomatic corps hostage for the last eight weeks. Victor Polay...
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Building will be a burden
Cambridge University's 150-acre expansion masterplan has run into difficulty, with one senior academic dismissing proposed building programmes as "wildly impractical". Oliver Rackham, a botanist at...
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'Elitism' hinders learners
Entrenched, elitist prejudice and anachronistic teaching methods at Cambridge University are failing its ethnic minorities, state school students and women, the student union has claimed. In its...
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Flood warning: prepare to be sued by students
Thames Valley University became the latest university to receive a summons from a former pupil this week. And lawyers called for urgent clarification of the legal basis of universities' contracts...
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Geographers bucked up
Geographers are "cautiously optimistic" following a meeting with the Higher Education Funding Council for England to argue against its plans to place the discipline on the lowest funding band. A...
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Scotland's grants review promises financial relief
Further education colleges are short of cash. Some think working with higher education institutions is the answer, but Scottish colleges have been penalised for doing so. Scotland's further education...
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All the world's no longer Will's stage
Only one third of major American colleges now require their English majors to take a Shakespeare course, according to a recent survey. The finding has fuelled concerns that the great authors are...
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Accentuate the team
Keep research apart from teaching - and solve the short-term contract dilemma at one stroke, suggest William Solesbury and Janet Lewis Short-term contracts are not just bad for the careers of...
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Staffs flags campus link-ups
A PIONEERING post-16 campus uniting further and higher education students could be in place within the next few years. Education leaders in Staffordshire met this week to discuss ways of working...
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London Facts
What does tertiary education do for London? Not a lot, says one report. In another of our series of regional focuses, THES reporters look for a sense of community within the M25 area. The region has...
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Greenwich gets RNC
What does tertiary education do for London? Not a lot, says one report. In another of our series of regional focuses, THES reporters look for a sense of community within the M25 area. GREENWICH...