NUS calls for monitoring body
THE NATIONAL Union of Students has called for a national council for awards to monitor standards in higher education and approve the awarding of qualifications, writes Chris Johnston. In its...
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NUS calls for monitoring body
* The Association of Graduate Recruiters has told Sir Ron Dearing that the proliferation of degrees has left graduates inadequately equipped for the world of work and employers confused about...
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NUS calls for monitoring body
The Council of College and University English (CCUE) fears that the humanities in general are under-represented on the Dearing committee, which might propose reforms without appreciating their...
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Grapes of Sussex
Wine may have featured heavily in last month's festivities. But English wine? The image of English wine has not kept pace with the reality. It is a multi-million pound industry of up to 500...
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Training people to spend the Euro
While European ministers gathered in Dublin to launch the Euro, European academics were defining the future business leaders who would be spending it. More than 150 delegates from industry, academe...
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Anita takes the plunge in Bath
"British business education is backward and this is not only a profound sadness but it is dangerous," says Body Shop founder and chief executive Anita Roddick. "Business is richer, vaster and more...
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A polished performance
DRAMA: CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA 1992 rating: Two 1s 1996 rating: Two 2s and a 3b The Central School of Speech and Drama polished its performance carefully for this year's research...
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Geography of success
Businesses located in strong geographical "clusters" of related industrial activity still perform better than their more isolated counterparts, despite the communications revolution, research from...
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Natural computing
Three strands of research have united Edinburgh's informatics planning unit - logic, language and "natural computing". Natural computing, a term coined for ideas of computing based on biological...
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Prescription for ambition
Among current research being carried out in the nursing department at Liverpool University is an evaluation of new innovations in nursing practice. The relative success of a pilot project in which...
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Shakespeare at the movies
The two principal areas of research now helping English at De Montfort on its way have concentrated on examination of text adaptations for the screen and editing primary texts for publication. The...
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Panel games
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES. "IT WAS one hell of an exercise," said Cary Cooper of UMIST, chairman of the business and management studies panel. "It took up a lot of academic time, but I think...
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Shadow doubts
SUBJECT ASSOCIATIONS. JUDGEMENTS made by the politics and international studies panel in the research assessment exercise have been largely endorsed by the Political Studies Association shadow panel...
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RAE pulled puppeteer's strings
The deadlines and practical requirements of the RAE had a direct impact on the work of Penny Francis, the school's puppetry tutor. She had to act fast to pull together A History of European Puppetry...
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Condition improving
NURSING: LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY 1992 rating: 3 1996 rating: 3a A rapid turn around of staff at Liverpool University's nursing department may have taken its toll in respect of research ratings. Karen...