Explicit ideas on sex
As email and the web become ubiquitous, guidelines for ethical use of internet services are now essential for users, says Ruth McGuire. One useful lesson to emerge from the Clinton scandal is that...
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Why I... believe Jack Straw's comments about Gypsies are 'stereotypical tripe'
Colin Clark Lecturer in social policy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and member of the British Gypsy Council. Moving On: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain by Colin Clark and Donald Kendrick...
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Better get hip, Daddio
'I was hamstered and now I'm c**ted.' If you want to teach effectively, best brush up on your slang, says Tony Thorne. As a nation, it seems, we British are passing through a particularly foul-...
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Why the numbers don't add up
The quality of teaching should not be measured by scores, says Roger Williams The Quality Assurance Agency will soon present proposals for a new method of assessing the quality of university teaching...
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Faith in the piper
I am stunned by the suggestion that the Quality Assurance Agency should itself be quality assured ("A piper who does not play the payer's tune", THES, August 20). This would be to challenge the ways...
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Epistemological split
Paul Gross and Mark Bauerlein (THES, August 6) chide me for trying to identify some middle ground between two contrasting epistemologists, Susan Haack and Sandra Harding. My offence is neither to...
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Unis fail to ensure degree quality
Some of Britain's most prestigious universities cannot guarantee the quality of their own degrees, the higher education quality watchdog has warned. Questions have been raised about quality control...
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Fixed-term contracts becoming the norm
The proportion of academics appointed on permanent contracts has halved in three years, new figures show. Data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal that just 18 per cent of...
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Bath student to pursue case in the High Court
A postgraduate student's eight-year battle with the University of Bath could now go to the High Court following a decision by the University's visitor to close the case. Neil McDougal has been locked...
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Demand for language teachers in colleges
Colleges are struggling to recruit enough teachers to cope with massive demand for foreign language classes, according to research from the Further Education Development Agency. The research, part of...
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Schools 'play dirty' to keep bright pupils
School heads are poaching the brightest sixth-form students by keeping them ignorant of college opportunities, the Association of Colleges claimed this week. An AoC survey found that at least one in...
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Deputies win ground in dismissal appeal
Two vice-principals at Glasgow Caledonian University have won internal appeals against summary dismissal. A university court disciplinary panel ruled that John Phillips and Peter Bush should be...
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Meningitis warning not going to FE students
Universities should ensure that further education students receive the same warnings about the danger of meningitis as undergraduates, the Health Education Authority has said. The University of...
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Signs of life may have been found on Mars
A huge mineral deposit in an unnamed Martian crater may be evidence of extraterrestrial life, according to new research by a leading earth scientist. Professor Mike Russell, of the Universities...
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Coshep asks for funds to exploit research
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week urged the Scottish Parliament to boost "third-leg" funding to commercialise academic research. In a briefing for the new parliament's...