Fast track to loans on internet by 2002
High-speed internet links between the Student Loans Company and education authorities will be in place by 2002, as part of a bid to reduce application processing time. The initiative is part of the...
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See me, Ah'm an inspiration!
Hard-drinking, string-vested, professionally challenged Glaswegian television hero Rab C. Nesbitt has proved an inspiration to competition entrants. Students and their tutors on a distance-learning...
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Youth unemployment high
The United Kingdom's relative lack of success in reducing youth unemployment was highlighted last week in a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The report says this...
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Staff 'not missing out'
As Natfhe will be aware, the claim that University of Westminster staff are "missing out" compared with other comparable institutions has no basis in reality (For the record, THES, February 11). Our...
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QAA benchmarking 'shambles'
The Quality Assurance Agency's policy development on benchmarking has become a shambles. Vice-chancellors, uneasy about campus autonomy in the light of the new blueprint, should be seizing the chance...
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Speaking of God...
It was gratifying to see a British university department (biblical studies at Sheffield) receiving justifiable praise ("Greatest story ever told", THES, February 11). Puzzling, though, was the...
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To join the ILT or not?
Tim Unwin and Richard Hodgkins say they care passionately about "the quality of their teaching" and that geography has an excellent record (Soapbox, THES, February 4). So, what is the problem? Why...
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To join the ILT or not?
Unwin and Hodgkins ridicule the "new orthodoxy of higher education" - meaning what? As far as I am concerned it means placing "learning, teaching and scholarship" at the heart of the university...
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To join the ILT or not?
The ILT will raise the profile and value of teaching as a profession in higher education. It will help to set and encourage high standards of professionalism and scholarship. It is perhaps for this...
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Section 28 injustice
Everyone who teaches young people has had to cope with the fall-out from the near hysterical debate on the repeal of Section 28. It is recognised throughout the teaching profession that Section 28...
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UCAS a bar to access
I have just returned from the British Council education exhibitions in Hong Kong and Thailand, where much was made of the new branding of British education. While I applaud this initiative, one of...
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More pay, fewer jibes
Academic and related staff have a strong case for their salaries to be increased, as the evidence from the Bett committee indicates. Let us hope that the government will ensure that universities...
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Bright sparks cross the divide
The old versus new university divide makes no difference to the amount of innovative teaching taking place. Harold Silver and Andrew Hannan have found that it is history that counts History appears...
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Glass class
(Photograph) - Kirsteen Aubrey displays her work for Public Arts Laboratory, an interactive exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester until February 28. Visitors enter the world...
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Stressed, bored, sober and selfish
Stress continues to rise among American students, especially females, says a national survey. Researchers blame a faster lifestyle, high expectations and the need to work part-time to pay tuition...