Footballing heroes
(Photograph) - Footballing heroes: Colin Yates, a senior technician in visual arts at the University of Coventry, with a portrait from his series on the lives of black footballers. 'Many of us think...
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Cult-watch centre faces closure
A unique centre for the study of religious cults based at the London School of Economics may be forced to close due to a lack of money, writes Alan Thomson. The Information Network Focus on Religious...
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Lifelong paper is lacking in coherence, AUTS says
The Scottish Office has failed to produce a coherent plan in its green paper on lifelong learning, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. In its response to Opportunity Scotland,...
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Lecturer fights 'corruption'
Barcelona Spanish university appointments procedures that seem to favour internal candidates over better qualified lecturers returning from posts overseas are being challenged in the courts. Antonio...
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Peace moves
(Photograph) - Ethnic Albanian students at the University of Pristina ended a day's hunger strike after the Yugoslav government and Kosovar leaders agreed to this week's peace talks outside Paris...
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Agony Aunt
I would like to use the web for teaching purposes but don't know how to sort out the good material from the dross Joyce Martin, Head of CTI Support Service, Oxford 01865 33 ctiss@oucs.ox.ac.uk A Pick...
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Scotland's higher education institutions
Scotland's higher education institutions must not lose out if teaching funds for the Open University in Scotland are transferred north of the border, the AUTS has warned. The government is consulting...
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Blunkett's axe hovers over TTA
Speculation that the government is prepared to abolish the Teacher Training Agency is mounting after last week's announcement of a review of the "future need" for the agency's functions. The...
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Financial penalties for universities to be softened
Financial penalties for universities that have under-recruited to teacher training courses will be softened this year, the TTA has confirmed. Setting out details of the distribution of Pounds 160...
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Shunning the Scots
Incorrect recruitment figures were published for Heriot-Watt University ("North hit as applications fall", THES, January 22). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figure of a fall of 21...
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Common sense on complaints
The THES has blown out of the water claims by the university sector that it can handle student complaints ("From mark to blemish",Whistleblowers, THES, February 5). Sadly, Sunderland could have been...
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Need for inspection
Peter Knight's recommendation that Ofsted handle higher education quality control (THES, "Outsiders looking in", February 5) is entirely logical. It is, of course, true, that Ofsted has achieved a...
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Need for inspection
Peter Knight makes a good case for a system of external inspection to replace the labour-intensive and unsatisfactory QAA systems. As someone who has emerged into the teaching and learning arena from...
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Tap at fame
(Photograph) - Rose Ingram, of Wolverhampton University and winner of the National Pottery and Ceramics Festival student prize, displays her latest work, Water Vessels.
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Corporation of London Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science...