The chance to learn can be a lottery...
... especially for those leaving care. Local authorities have a duty to support them in higher education, but many fail to do so, finds Matt Baker Leading care organisations have warned that the...
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Oh, the very chic of our student housing plan
Post-Hutton, the University of the M25 is running scared - right to a medal-winning Olympic ruse, writes Ted Prince What do you mean awful news really is awful news?" said our sultan of spin,...
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Less of a Robin, more of a hood
Dick Turpin is often viewed as a lace-frilled gentleman robber but, writes Chris Bunting, recent research suggests that he was little more than a very violent thug Some are born great, some achieve...
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Ambassadors, go forth and multiply
Geoff Watts reports on a scheme that aims to halt a cycle of decline in maths and science by giving undergraduate role models credit for working in schools With young people's enthusiasm for science...
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Three enthusiastic envoys who went back to school
Helen Candy, Paul Canning and Chris Collins all chose to do a module as undergraduate ambassadors. For Candy, who was reading chemistry at the University of Southampton, it was a way of dipping a toe...
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The chance to learn can be a lottery...
... especially for those leaving care. Local authorities have a duty to support them in higher education, but many fail to do so, finds Matt Baker Leading care organisations have warned that the...
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Oh, the very chic of our student housing plan
Post-Hutton, the University of the M25 is running scared - right to a medal-winning Olympic ruse, writes Ted Prince What do you mean awful news really is awful news?" said our sultan of spin,...
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Love is ... desirable, but it's by no means a 'right'
In invoking too many rights as 'universal', we trivialise the ones that matter, lose our sense of moral discrimination and overlook fundamental cultural differences, argues Bhikhu Parekh The language...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 1
Frank Furedi ("Don't underestimate managers' ability to treat you as an idiot", THES , January 30) highlights academics' fears that managers are using staff development to whip them into line with...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 2
"Personal development" is a hoop through which employees in most large organisations have to jump. You do not have to be a starry-eyed academic to find it patronising. The only satisfying explanation...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 3
Frank Furedi's attack on university staff development is largely empty and misconstructed. Staff development aims to further the goals of an institution, individuals, or both. Furedi attacks...
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Time to mix'n'match 1
John Drummond neglects to mention that dental school recruitment problems extend to non-clinical academics, who are usually responsible for 30-40 per cent of teaching (Letters, THES , January 30). He...
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Time to mix'n'match 2
The British Medical Association is concerned that clinical academic numbers are falling when medical student numbers are rising steeply ("BMA warns of research-mad medical schools", THES , January 30...
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Questionable results
Preliminary results of the pilot student satisfaction survey ("Students rate staff highly", THES , January 30) should be treated with caution. Constructing a league table that allows students to...
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High expectations 1
Geoffrey Beattie's claim ("It's not what Les says that counts", THES , January 30) that the Big Brother house and its inmates provide valuable data for new psychological theory is worrying. His main...