Scots see benefits of Westminster divorce
The establishment of a Scottish parliament could produce a new approach to running the education system, characterised by accountability and consensus. This view emerged at a conference on "Education...
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Belarus nuclear protest trials
Two Belarusian scientists have appealed for help from the international academic community to ensure they receive a fair trial. Yury Khadyka and Viachaslau Siuchyk were released from custody last...
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Quality of privacy is strained
You suggest (Opinion, THES, June 14) that departmental reviews involving outside peers have emerged as the most effective means of assessing and enhancing quality and that "within the privacy of such...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Be sure of no Shell link
I was intrigued to see that my short article on the Brent Spar affair (THES, May 31) appeared opposite a full-page advert for Shell's Internet Brent Spar website. Since my article carried the agreed...
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When the living is wheezy
Scientists now believe a western lifestyle is to blame for the increase in asthma. Asthma goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks when Hippocrates coined the term. But in those days the condition...
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South Bank makes lecturers redundant
One seventh of all full-time academic posts at London's South Bank University are to be axed, including the first compulsory redundancies to hit the university sector. Almost half of the 84 axed...
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Garrick's lead role
Sir Ron Garrick, chief executive of the Weir Group, is to chair the committee investigating Scottish higher education as part of Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry. There is growing impatience in...
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Franchise row rages at Swansea
A fierce battle over the standard of overseas franchise courses is being fought between senior managers and quality assurance officials at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. Senior managers at...
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Still a few more problems to solve
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS T1-92 CALCULATOR Pounds 199.99 including VAT The Texas Instruments TI-92 is a lightweight (620g) powerful calculator. The word "calculator" hardly does it justice, as it can plot...
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Lesbian affair leads to lawsuit
Forty-year-old divorced mother Dale Gray is just another vulnerable student, says her lawyer. But according to the University of Alabama, it acted properly to protect her interests in a campus sexual...
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How exams reflect life
It seems to be agreed that traditional exams, whatever their failings, are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment (THES, June 7). Much criticism is based on the idea that they are "...
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Equipment grant safe
Kam Patel's report (THES, June 7) raised several important issues about the difficulties of investing in research equipment. However, I was surprised to read the comments attributed to Mike Hunter of...
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The industrial evolution
Can Darwinism be applied to technological innovation? John Ziman examines the analogy between biological and cultural evolution. Go to a technology museum, and look at the bicycles. Then go to a...
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Unions reject 1.5%
The two biggest lecturers' unions were on a collision course with their employers this week following the rejection of a "lamentable" pay offer and "sweatshop" industrial relations strategy. The...