Agony Aunt
Q) What is the legal position on photocopying materials provided through the internet and distributing them to students as teaching aids?; Raymonde Kilpatrick research and compliance manager,...
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How to... Give students the big picture
What - `Learning outcomes' are the latest buzzwords in higher education teaching. Phil Race looks behind the jargon and explains why everyone needs to get up to speed. Why - Learning outcomes give...
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Centre is now open
City University has opened the first stage of an open learning centre in its department of continuing education. Teaching staff are able to refer students to the centre for academic guidance and...
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Education in the home
Research from the Institute of Education in London has concluded that home education is a viable and successful alternative to school. Alan Thomas, visiting fellow at the institute, has studied ten...
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Trainees learn ropes
Staffordshire University has started management training for academic line managers using tests designed for Olympic swimmers and involving team building exercises with ropes. The programme aims to...
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Course for postgrads
The Open University has launched a course to train postgraduate students to teach undergraduates. The university hopes that the distance-learning course will become a key component of the Institute...
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Learning on internet
Stirling University is building up partnerships to promote distance learning through the internet. It has joined Glasgow Caledonian University in launching a new MSc in lifelong learning, which is...
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Staff face life ban for Islamic activities
Turkish academics face a life-long ban from their universities and the loss of all academic titles if they engage in "anti-Ataturk activities", which are held to be attempts to challenge the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose central character is long-lived and trans-gendered... "He - for there could be no doubt...
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Confounding the mystagogues
Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights
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For services to conversation
Isaiah Berlin
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Verbal frolics
Language Play
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Work - who needs it
Women and Work in Modern Britain - Flexible Employment - From School to Work
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Martians and other hot spots
Science
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From colonial rulers to do-gooders going native
Never the Same Again