Casting a fresh 'i' over science
Problem-based learning is replacing the uninspired combined science teaching of yore. Derek Raine charts its ascent. A long time ago, when the phrase "inspiring students" was not on our university...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David J. McGarvey Age: 41 Job: Senior lecturer in chemistry, Keele University Salary: about £38k Qualifications:...
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Rivalry and rebuff in race for £2m
In light of allegationsof unfairness made against the British Academy, Phil Baty looks at a Sussex research team's complaint Richard Grove was delighted when his research plans beat competition from...
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Losers could regain grants
Medical schools that take the less qualified to widen access will reap rewards. Medical schools, which lost out significantly when teaching funding was shifted to those universities taking in poorer...
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NE focus on locals pays off
Susan Boden is determined to become a "different kind of doctor". She left school with virtually no qualifications after regularly playing truant, but returned to college at 17, when her daughter was...
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A darker future for our pale blue dot
Our Final Century
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Potted dish lacks Protestant flavour and papist sauce
Beef and Liberty
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No Puritan to the letter
Rappaccini's Daughter
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose heroine adores Gothic novels: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy...
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Sweet 'n' sauerkraut
The Skeptic
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Thought of 'I' remains a mystery
Consciousness
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Now the genie is out of its bottle...
Beyond all Reason
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Laurie Taylor
Ploumanack BRITTANY Hello Maureen! Yes, it's Julie Samson. Bet you didn't expect to hear from me so soon after degree day! Both mum and dad came in the end and dad said it was one of the proudest...
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Leader: Mickey Mouse is a complex beast
At long last someone has had the courage to identify some "Mickey Mouse" courses. It might have been stretching a point to describe the Conservatives' list of unlikely sounding degrees as research,...
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Leader: A-level standards vary
A week on from results day, arguments are still raging about whether some A levels are easier than others. Although ministers apparently feel honour-bound to insist that they are all equally...