How do we value diversity?
Students' evaluation of the courses on offer and their willingness to pay fees for them is a guarantee against dull uniformity says Quentin Thompson Britain has a higher education system which...
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Civilised pay reviews
I AM astonished that you say in your leader (THES, October 3), that "the AUT might pause before pressing on with its campaign for a pay review body if academic staff are thereby to become in effect...
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Ee by gum, Norman
THE many and varied explanations which Anthony Lodge is reported to offer (THES, September 26) for the marked differences between the speech of executives and taxi drivers in London compared to their...
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Motivation revolution
CONTRIBUTORS to The Good Teaching Guide (THES, October 3) called for change in academic teaching practices in universities and colleges. Central to any such strategy must be an understanding of what...
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Spot checks on quality
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Student leaders are calling for spot checks on quality in university departments. Doug Trainer, president of...
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Down under
(Photograph) - Down under: Paul Ridout, managing director of Ocean Scientific International Ltd., a company working with Southampton Oceanography Centre, holds the MiniBat, an underwater robot that...
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Going to the back of the class
Brenda Smith explains why lecturers need to listen to each other and criticise What would your reaction be if a member of staff stopped you in the corridor and asked you to come into their next...
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An audience of confident cynics
Phil Baty joins a group of thirtysomethings in the classroom I should have just bull****ted," concedes the loud bloke in the rugby shirt at the back of the lecture room, after being pilloried by 25...
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Still lecturing at the lectern?
Teaching space is still dedicated to the medieval idea of students sitting at your feet, says Roger Lewis A student from a mid-19th century university would feel wholly at home on the late 20th-...
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When teaching interrupts the real work
Lecturers should not be afraid of educationists. They need to get involved in research into teaching methods, says Paul Orsmond Not many higher education lecturers will be promoted because of their...
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Many traps for novice authors
Writing a textbook is no way to get rich quick, according to Lawrence Knowles A friend recently received three contract proposals from publishers interested in a textbook he wants to write. He has...
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Get ready for the real world
Anne White reflects on the success of a graduate training programme in biological sciences Gone are the days when a PhD or MSc in biological sciences was a leisurely process planning experiments...
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Changing times for student assessment
Students marking their own work is surprisingly common in Scotland, reports Olga Wojtas Dai Hounsell has confounded sceptics who warned him that teaching innovations had been stifled by the financial...
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Descent into poverty
(Photograph) - Descent into poverty: students are facing severe hardship as delays in processing hit grant applications in Scotland and new funding arrangements play havoc with local education...
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Fact file
There were 1,720,094 higher education enrolments in 1995/96 with 126,582 academic staff and a sector income of Pounds 10.7 billion. * In 1995/96 31 per cent of students were under 21, with 50 per...