New government to favour FE
FURTHER education will benefit from the new administration in the Irish Republic following last week's general election, which resulted in a hung Dail - the lower house of parliament. All the main...
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Beloved 'bac' shows signs of stress
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation AS Nearly half a million French school students prepare to take the baccalaureat, this educational...
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Fast-track plans annoy old guard
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Modest proposals by the Japanese education ministry for a fast-track system in which above-average...
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Italy weaned from free access
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Despite legal hurdles and furious protests from the student left, Italian universities are increasingly...
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Medicine's balance needs readjusting
NINETEEN ninety-seven is an important year for medical education. Medical schools have recently come through the research assessment exercise with considerable misgivings and some trauma. Sir Rex...
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Thank God it's PFI-day
The review of public/private partnerships due today should kick-start university building projects which have been waiting for new guidance, say David Cuckson and Peter Walters Friday the 13th may be...
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On your marks for changes in the exam system
The anonymity of candidates is not sufficiently protected by the substitution of numbers for names, says Roger Watson Anonymous marking has become almost universal in higher education in the past ten...
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What's the problem?
Although Terry Hyland (THES, May 2) complains that transferable skills cannot be defined, I think I can offer a few suggestions. I would define communication skills as the ability to talk/write to an...
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A volunteer to leave
Concerning my leaving Southampton Institute in August of this year (THES, May 16). I have not been asked to take voluntary redundancy as you stated twice. In the normal course of events, I would have...
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Why we do not need a Hera
There is no doubt that existing salary and careers structures for academic and academic-related staff are seriously flawed, fail to meet elementary equal opportunities criteria and are open to...
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Why we do not need a Hera
The recent academic pay survey (THES, June 6) provided a sensation of "deja vu all over again" (to quote a prominent football manager). Those surveys showing university pay lagging behind comparable...
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Why we do not need a Hera
While agreeing with your editorial comment (THES, June 6) that academic librarians are not paid much, I have to express some reservations about the validity of Hay Management Consultants' conclusions...
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Female recognition
Sian Griffiths has misunderstood how Oxford University's recent professorial distinctions exercise operated ("Oxford women profs penalised", THES, June 6). The result is a story which is both...
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Unitary authority
In a recent conversation about progress with the new campus development at the University of Nottingham, it emerged that one of the senior planners for the project had commented that "we should be...
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Bullying by email
The article by Alison Utley on abusive emails (THES, May 30) suggests that this ground-breaking survey - the first to ever explore the incidence of electronic bullying, or workplace bullying via...