Quality assurance positions of the key players
HEFCE HEFCE has not agreed to abandon numbers. The joint funding council said last year. "It is highly desirable that the QAA assessments should include summative quantified ratings as well as...
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Cost of loans chaos mounts
Vice-chancellors and university officials are warning that institutions stand to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds in administrative costs because of expected student loans "chaos" this term. They...
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Cash for eight centres of ideas
The government has earmarked Pounds 25 million to set up eight university centres of enterprise to encourage scientists to turn their ideas into commerce. Stephen Byers, secretary of state for trade...
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Fee row threat to Scots coalition
Political wrangling over Scottish student finance has intensified with the passing of last Friday's deadline for submissions to the Cubie inquiry, launched by enterprise and lifelong learning...
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EU court rules on cross-border grants
A recent European Court of Justice ruling has reinforced the entitlement of students to receive state support to study in one European Union country even though their parents may be working in...
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GPs run short of the meningitis vaccine
There are growing fears that the meningitis student vaccination campaign is in disarray because of vaccine supply problems. New students are being urged to go to their GPs to be vaccinated against...
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Agony aunt
Is peer observation a useful tool to improve teaching or an excuse to spy on lecturers? A With the expectation of demonstrable high quality at diminishing cost that pervades higher education at...
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Wolverhampton University may be forced to withdraw from teacher education
Wolverhampton University may be forced to withdraw from teacher education when a damning inspection report on its BEd courses is published in October. A draft report obtained by The THES by schools...
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Future bleak for four-year BEds
Experts are warning there is no future for four-year undergraduate teacher training courses in primary education. They say new funding regimes for initial teacher training are the final nail in the...
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Making 'herstory' their story
It's time women's history became part of a wider gender history, says Penelope Corfield. Should the flourishing field of women's history become part of a wider gender history? Yes, it should. Women's...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... ...Joseph Schwartz argued that psychoanalysis merits academic and scientific attention. David Livingstone Smith Goldsmiths College There can be little doubt that...
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Israeli partners abandon UK unis
British universities are being abandoned by their franchise partners in Israel following a series of disputes over "British degrees for sale". Two private Israeli colleges that deliver franchised...
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Lecturer with MS takes Surrey to industrial tribunal
A disabled lecturer whose current contract was more than halved two years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis has taken his university to an industrial tribunal. George Mowat-Brown, 51, a...
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Research chief faces acid test
The new research chief at the European Commission is facing a resignation call even before he has officially replaced disgraced commissioner Edith Cresson. Philippe Busquin, who is expected to be...
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Hague 'shows his sophistication' in rebranding the Tories
William Hague's marketing of the Tories is more sophisticated than Labour's, delegates to the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference at Nene University College will hear this week. Whereas...