Teaching skills get all shook up
The Government has announced the "biggest-ever" shake-up of teacher training, involving the rapid introduction of a national curriculum for universities and colleges. From September next year teacher...
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French press lacks baronial archetypes
Huw Richards reports from the Institute of Contemporary History conference on A Century of the Popular Press. Anglo-American journalism provides immense scope for connoisseurs of the Great Man theory...
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Elitist degree shows mettle
The French university system's deliberately elite magistre degree is a huge success, according to the academic audit body, the Comite National d'Evaluation. The magistre was created ten years ago to...
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Engineering fault in the system
Richard Barry argues for axing the 30 plus engineering faculties which last year accepted students with A-level points well below those of their humanities counterparts It is that time of year again...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. "Fascinating", "compelling", "a tour de force", "slapdash", "jejune" and "sloppy" were joined today by "dazzling" as a description of my new biography of Hugh Gaitskell. The range of...
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Scots back autonomy
The Association of University Teachers has clashed with the Educational Institute of Scotland over a Trades Union Congress call for a Scottish parliament to have control of the universities. David...
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Teach-in: tutor Sabir Aziz is helping 15-year-old Kamran Rashid
(Photograph) - Teach-in: tutor Sabir Aziz is helping 15-year-old Kamran Rashid with his homework as part of the Ethnic Minority School Achievement Project, which is based at Sheffield's Pakistan...
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Puddle thinking
Rain is as much a part of Britain as the royal family. However, it seems the hourly probability of rain in the United Kingdom is actually quite low - about one in 12 in fact. Robert Matthews, a...
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Flash in the pan for Czechs
Baltimore Sun journalist H. L. Mencken once noted memorably that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". Too bad he never had a chance to see the present-day Czech...
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Albanians rejoin Serb fold
The Serbian government has signed a deal with the Albanians of Kosovo that promises to restore their access to the official university in the province. Albanophone education from kindergarten up to...
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Pockets of good practice
New universities receive less state funding for research than old ones. Is it time for a change, asks Clive Booth. It is time for new universities to take the offensive in asserting their role in the...
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Case of mistaken Euro-identity
As British holidaymakers return from the sunsoaked beaches of Spain and their rural retreats in Italy and France, it is harder than ever to see whether we will become more European. We may have...
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Call to limit use of genetic data
The United Kingdom should follow the example of countries such as Belgium, France, Austria and Norway and introduce a temporary moratorium on any requirement to disclose genetic information as the...
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High minded
We don't know what he's like at electrotechnics, but if the faculty of that subject at St Cyril and Methodius University at Tetovo in Macedonia offers options in enterprise it should immediately...
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Kinnock knockers blamed
The hostile press barrage directed at Neil Kinnock during his nine years as leader of the Labour party may have helped determine the final outcome of the 1992 general election, argued James Thomas, a...