External assessors need a fairer deal
ENDof term, Wimbledon, the lure of 2. Such are the delights of late June and early July. External examining, on the other hand, is unlikely to be what academics enjoy most about the start of summer....
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Saving for a brainy sort of pay
TRADITIONALLY, there have been three ways of financing higher education: through tuition fees, state support, or private charitable contributions. But I would like to propose a fourth option - the...
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Blackstone promises no dilution of A levels
The Government will not "water down the standard of A levels", education and employment minister Tessa Blackstone insisted this week. Baroness Blackstone was keen to appease her detractors amid...
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On-job training is way forward
There are too many young people in schools, colleges and universities, Cambridge University professor of education and senior government adviser David Hargreaves said this week. More young people...
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Wiles plus Fermat equals a tidy sum
British mathematician Andrew Wiles was today due to receive the coveted and unique Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem - marking the climax of one of the greatest mathematical...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a Cincinnati kid who thought that sudden changes of mind were a good thing: "...
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Chapter nous
Transferable Skills in Higher Education - Improving Student Learning - Learning to Effect - Changing the Higher Education Curriculum - Rethinking University Teaching - Effective Teaching in Higher...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Lampeter Dan Cohn Sherbok, rabbi, formerly at the University of Kent at Canterbury, has been appointed to a chair in Judaism. University of East London The following chairs have...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research contracts Ms H. Kemshall, Pounds 37,000 from Home Office Probation Training Unit (project to inform future policy on training and development in relation to...
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The orator's obituary
The lecture was invented in the 5th century bc. Now it has had its day, says John Wakeford What, one muses, reminded of Darwin's experience as one sits through yet another colleague's inaugural, will...
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The burden of proof
Fermat's Last Theorem - Fermat's Last Theorem
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Clashes between the celestial busy-bodies
Solar System Astronomy in America
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Type cast
Five Hundred Years of Printing
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Gazing at ancient skies
Astronomy before the Telescope
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Thankless consorting
Albert