Natfhe issues strike warning
INDUSTRIAL action could follow Leeds Metropolitan University's decision to close the faculty of health and social care and move its three schools to the remaining four faculties. Leslie Wagner, vice...
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Citizenship is not just cricket
On page 5 of The THES, January 31, a quote starting "If the secretary for education and employment decides" in the story entitled "Citizenship is not just cricket" was attributed to the TTA instead...
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Bikers bloom in their middle age
HE IS 46 and has an enduring passion for motorcycles. And it seems senior lecturer Geoff Crowther is not alone. Research shows more middle-aged men - and women - are not only looking for excitement...
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Call for rethink on meningitis
AN OFFICIAL report by the Bro Taf health authority on the outbreak of meningitis at the University of Wales, Cardiff has suggested that the Government Public Health Laboratory Service should review...
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Relief at end of pay dispute
THE seven-month higher education pay dispute is all but over after employers agreed to the principle of an independent and fully funded pay review body. All eight unions involved agreed last Friday...
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Woodhead attacks poor teaching
POOR quality teacher training is failing schoolchildren, chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead warned this week. In his Standards and Quality in Education annual report for 1995/96, Mr Woodhead...
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National solution to 'ad hoc' teaching
A national agency for curriculum development and assessment in higher education is proposed today by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional development at the Institute of Education. Professor Barnett...
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Soton managers set for showdown
GOVERNORS and managers at Southampton Institute are preparing for a showdown over calls in an independent report for "a different style of leadership". David Leyland, the institute's director, has...
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Loan silence
The best advice for students planning to ring the Student Loans Company's advice line may be to ring the National Union of Students Scotland instead. The union rang the advice line to check the loan...
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Red alert
After Hong Kong, higher education? Those who wish to draw alarming conclusions about the possible future course of funding policy from the decorations chosen by senior staff at the Higher Education...
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Modesty policy
Hacks attending the unveiling of the Scottish Office white paper on education and training bluntly demanded to know why deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine was on the presentation committee. Mr...
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Dickens twist
There should be some fun next time quality assessors visit the English department at the University of Pune, India. Examiners there followed last year's triumph of relocating an Arthur Miller...
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Lift let down
Long before the single post-16 sector, college chiefs and vice chancellors agree on one thing, the inadequacy of the v-cs' soon-to-be-vacated headquarters. Seeking offices to match his designer...
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Mission statement
Dundee University's vice principal, David Swinfen, recently writing a column in the staff newsletter in the absence of principal Ian Graham-Bryce, dreamed of revolution and a university Jaguar car...
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Charterhouse blues
As we all know - or at least have been told often enough - declining levels of numeracy are the fault of trendy teaching methods. Those who doubt this should note the example of alumnus to be proud...