Soft sell
When is a business not a business? When it is an educational institution. If an ordinary business wanted to buy 14 copies of AutoCAD Release 13, 12 AutoCAD LT, four AEC Release 5 and three copies of...
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Acid remarks
It might be a prime example of stating the obvious, but the Further Education Development Agency report on issues arising from drug use in FE notes that "several colleges reported that students used...
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Red mist
Alumnus to be proud of No 134. Nathan Thomas, who plays rugby for Bath and Wales, recently secured his place in pub sports quizzes by his conduct in the match between Bath and Newcastle. Brought on...
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May spring
Scientists were two to a seat to hear Margaret Beckett address the British Association meeting this week. Organisers so hopelessly underestimated the turnout when the meeting was brought forward that...
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Research inquiry sparks row
PLANS for an inquiry into the quality of educational research by chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead met with fury from university educationists this week, as the British Educational Research...
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Education research costs millions of pounds a year
* Education research costs millions of pounds a year, yet politicians and teachers seem to find little in the results, says Brunel University's Alan Smithers. Criticising education research at the...
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Woodhead's allies
LORD Pearson of Rannoch (Conservative): Former commerce and industry representative on the now defunct Council for National Academic Awards. Ofsted said that Lord Pearson's comments in a Lords debate...
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Austria revisits Holocaust past
TWO AUSTRIAN graduates are working with Holocaust survivors in Britain as part of their compulsory national service. In place of serving eight months in the armed forces at 18, Martin Pletersek and...
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Budding architects face rebuilt course
A shake-up of architecture education and training is urgently needed to meet the demands of the 21st century, according to Chris Colbourne, director of education at the Royal Institute of British...
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Gender-bender chicks are hot stuff
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Chickens and crocodiles have more in common than previously thought, say...
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Gold's mine of early information
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds The early atmosphere could have contained much greater concentrations of...
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Humans are the best lie detectors
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Human beings could be better at detecting lies than polygraphs, but husbands...
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How salmon stay in pink
Some are just cold fish, others are hot strategists but all salmon have different personalities that affect how they hunt for food, writes Julia Hinde. Researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow...
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Cash-troubled university loses second top man
TROUBLED Glasgow Caledonian University has lost a senior manager in a wave of early retirements. Brian Fraser, senior assistant principal with responsibility for human resources and the university's...
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Yes lobby battles to win Welsh sceptics
OUTSIDE the principality itself, there is a distinct danger that next week's Welsh referendum will be seen merely as a tailpiece to yesterday's Scottish poll. That order of precedence and perception...