New FEFC chief
A former higher education assessment director is to become the new chief inspector of the Further Education Funding Council. Jim Donaldson, chief inspector of schools at the Scottish Office with...
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Hi-tec hitch
Due to a technical fault, figures for the total first-degree student population in my article were incorrect (THES, September ). The number of first-degree students for 1994/95 was 995,764 with the...
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Silver tongue
Lecturers' unions requested a generous pinch of salt to accompany the news that Roger Ward, new chief executive of the Association of Colleges, was leaving behind his past as a bruising negotiator to...
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Militant in health cash plea
Denis Goldberg, former sabotage commander of the African National Congress, now director of a charity aiding reconstruction and development in South Africa, is courteous, genial and persuasive. "Even...
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National holiday celebrates teachers
Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov has proclaimed a new national holiday to be celebrated on October 1. The decree creating "Teachers and Instructors Day" evidently came too late for this year. The...
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End of tenure, start of tender
Higher education should be restructured like the NHS so that self-employed academics submit bids to teach university courses. David Albury explains. Building on a study of the future and management...
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New! Improved formula!
Feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding braves the din of a London launderette to explain to Gail Vines why she thinks modern science would be much improved by incorporating other cultural...
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Soton students are thrown a lifeline
Portsmouth University is to bail out Southampton Institute of Higher Education by taking on MBA students cast adrift by its decision last week to close the loss-making specialist maritime campus in...
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Nobel wins buck Britain
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry came home this week with Sir Harold Kroto of Sussex University winning the award for the discovery of a remarkable form of carbon whose structure matches the pattern of...
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Smoked out
Men who never smoke have a 78 per cent chance of living to the age of 73, while lifelong male smokers have only a 43 per cent chance, according to a 15-year follow-up study of 7,735 British middle-...
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Eyeless in Glasgow
Students with disabilities may feel they still face discrimination, but at least things have improved slightly over the past 500 years. A new history of Glasgow University reveals that in 1476,...
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Vision needed in exploiting IT factor
Universities and colleges will have to create new learning environments to make the most of information technology, according to a study out this week by oil company BP and the University of...
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Deja VU
Well-known names in educationtechnology took part in an online conference on the "virtual university", organised by Anne Forster and Clark Quinn of the University of New South Wales to coincide with...
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Students angle for blue-chip jobs
A growing number of Japanese undergraduates are taking an extra year to complete their degree courses in the hope of being headhunted for top jobs. Around 15 per cent of them now extend their study...
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Telling tale of infidelity among heterosexuals
I was dismayed at the report of my conference paper about how people account for infidelity, their own and their partner's (THES, September ). In particular, I did not say, nor do I agree, that women...