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A new batch of teaching quality ratings are added this week to The THES research and teaching quality tables (page29 and THESIS Databank). Also online is the Synthesis report on Universities and...
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Excellent bonanza for 'old' universities
Old universities dominate the "excellent" ratings in the latest round of teaching assessments published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, writes Claire Sanders. In the seven...
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Flagging up a protest
Flagging up a protest: Romanian students on the streets of Bucharest this week as the government pondered a retreat from its hard line on introducing tuition fees and a charge for examination resits...
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Action on extremism
The National Union of Students is to send a dossier listing verbal and physical abuse that students have suffered at the hands of fascist groups, Islamic extremist groups and religious cults to...
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Fender's doorstop aims to ease the pain of RAE
Two hundred and forty-two pages of funding council documents thudded on to university doormats this week as the final guidance and criteria for the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise were issued....
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...
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Unions rally behind whistleblowing policy
University and college lecturers' unions have called for sweeping changes in the governance of institutions in evidence presented to the Nolan Committee this week. All universities should be governed...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Down and out in Kentish obscurity
The crumbling house where Darwin lived and wrote On the Origin of Species could be rescued from decay by a Pounds 2.4 million grant from the National Lottery, Aisling Irwin reports Charles Darwin may...
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The suits tailor a parochial debate
Late last month, 250 of higher education's Great and the Good met in the august surroundings of the Royal Society to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Society for Research into Higher Education....
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Out of Soares's shadow
One commentator described the Portuguese Socialist Party's victory in last month's parliamentary election as a "new April 25", a reference to the country's 1974 revolution which sprang from an...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Fred Inglis (THES, October 20) claims that, despite individual accomplishments, the latter-day New Left nevertheless lacks the commanding intellectual and moral stature of Raymond Williams and Edward...
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Prescription for progress
One would expect the professions to be able to justify their services by showing that clients benefit from them. In fact, all professions resist gathering the necessary evidence. Progress towards...
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Portsmouth far from shipshape
As the person who represented Mrs Tall in her claim for constructive dismissal against the University of Portsmouth, I would like to take issue with Mike Bateman and the "facts" he disclosed in his...