David Miller, chairman of the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Qualifications Authority, which will take over...
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
The Council of Europe finds HE guilty of inequality, says Olga Wojtas. Higher education in Europe is guilty of reflecting and reinforcing inequalities in society, and should instead itself become a...
What would a Labour government do with initial teacher training? Well, probably bring in a national curriculum for a start, says Michael Barber. Last week the Government announced that it had asked...
I was interested to read in your Antithesis column (THES, September 13) the piece headlined "Norman's conquest". Contrary to your comment, Foster and Partners have been employed by no fewer than...
Society needs hard facts about changing working patterns in order to plan for the future, argues Valerie Bayliss. What is really happening to the patterns of working lives and careers? Suddenly, all...
A survey has revealed high stress levels at Britain's largest university, sparking union claims that lecturers' health will suffer and educational quality will decline. The survey, by lecturers'...
The Council of Europe attracted the president of Italy, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, to the opening ceremony of its higher education access conference in Parma University last week. This was a mixed...
Students are suffering greater stress from course difficulties than from financial problems, according to a psychology lecturer. Evelyn Monks of Glasgow Caledonian University found that the majority...
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
In contrast with European Union procedures to promote change in member states, the Council of Europe generally issues recommendations rather than legally binding conventions, recognising the enormous...
Increasingly, one comes close to despair about the quality of public discussion of education issues. Now we have Mary Warnock, apparently echoing George Walden, declaring that "the worst schools in...
In Opinion (THES, September 20) Richard Barry uses the fact that 37 engineering faculties require lower grades for admission than all but two in the humanities as evidence for the existence of a long...
Seen much in the papers about last week's Leeds University conference on media ethics? No, us neither. One possible explanation is contained in a letter from the organisers to a potential participant...
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