Cash for students key to success of welcome reforms
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Stand by external advice or peer review will fade
Unless the role of the external examiners is established on a consistent basis, they will be frustrated in efforts to ensure uniform standards, argues Gordon Pearson Another season of exam boards...
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UCAS eyes up new FE places
UCAS recognises it will have to adapt if the delivery of higher education is to be more varied. Alison Goddard reports. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is planning to expand its...
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Figments and pigments
Would Peter Hill allow me to include the information he supplies in the next issue of the newsletter of the IRC (Institute for Resistance to Contentment)? David Punter Department of English studies...
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Lodging a complaint
Many thanks for the article on freemasons. What price pure or applied research in the Ivy League now? Laugh? I nearly had an accident. Paul Weller London SE1
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Why I ... am prepared to withhold my tuition fees again
Kate Atkinson is a second-year student at Balliol College, Oxford University. Last year she tried to withhold her tuition fees and this year is taking part in a mass protest against payment I...
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A scheme with merit
Peter Humphreys spells out why academics should be paid according to performance I have been in my job at the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association for almost two years now. I am still...
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Cloning: proceed with caution
Scientists should recognise the government is right to delay changing the law on cloning, says Ruth Deech In Britain we have learned that the introduction of radical scientific advances is best...
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Cutting Edge
Most think of charity shops as places where people who cannot otherwise afford clothes can buy them, but they have a wider role Charity shops are a familiar feature of high streets and shopping...
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Political raw material
Scotland is building the academic and research network that will help make policy. Olga Wojtas reports "This is an exciting time to be a researcher in Scotland," says Joyce Tait of Edinburgh...
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Family friend opens doors
Improving our understanding of issues affecting families and children is the aim of a joint research centre just opened by Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. The...
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New meningitis centre
Queen's University Belfast has set up a centre for meningitis research which aims to help early detection of the life-threatening disease and develop new drug therapies. The new centre, a...
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Study shows parents and teachers must talk
Requests from a school for parents to attend a meeting with the teacher must be the nearest a teenager gets to a harbinger of doom. So the news that researchers have recommended that such meetings...
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Flawed targets damage access
Universities will be encouraged to revert to traditional recruitment policies by government-backed performance indicators to be introduced from next year, economics experts warned this week....
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Indicators give mixed signals
Universities that fail to attract students from under-represented groups could be let off the hook by new performance indicators, college heads fear. Each institution will be given an absolute rating...