Earth mother, microbe lover
Worldly wise: 7. Biologist Lynn Margulis hates being seen as a 'woman scientist', rejects the current model of evolution and worships microbes. Andrew Robinson tries to find out what makes a...
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Margulis has successfully challenged the neo-Darwinians
Earth mother, microbe lover Biologists agree that more life is produced on earth than can possibly survive; that natural selection is the process by which some small fraction of what is produced...
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An orchestrated success
Ulster pioneers peer assessment in music. Olga Wojtas reports Music students differ from other kinds of students. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they are likely to have been skilled performers...
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What did you do at work today?
Lucy Jenks, Project Manager in Adult basic education, Tower Hamlets College Phil Baty spends a day with an FE project manager and Alan Thomson tails a university professor The power-cut comes just...
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What did you do at work today?
Clive Holtham, Head of Department of Management Systems and Information, City University Phil Baty spends a day with an FE project manager and Alan Thomson tails a university professor CLIVE Holtham...
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How not to get sued
University teachers must keep their balance as students become more litigious customers. Alison Utley offers some advice What happens when a South-east Asian student flunks her degree then sues the...
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Dumbing down disproved
Top honours degree have not been "dumbed down", evidence this week shows. The Higher Education Statistics agency has found that the proportion of first class and upper second class degrees awarded...
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Fact file
Findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1996-97 reveal that: Universities in England reported an overall surplus of Pounds 140 million, up 1.5 per cent over the previous year...
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Research challenge details on the way
Details of the University Challenge scheme, whereby Pounds 50 million of seed capital will be ploughed into universities to help commercialise research, are expected to be announced next week.
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Natfhe votes for pay offer
Members of lecturers' union Natfhe this week voted overwhelmingly to accept their employers' pay offer. The phased settlement of 3.8 per cent was endorsed by 79 per cent of voters, in line with...
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A profession of faith
The Institute of Learning and Teaching kicks off this autumn, writes Alison Utley. The Institute of Learning and Teaching will begin to be fine-tuned next week Its mission is to set national...
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Keeping the wolf from the door
Field trips, once a staple of geography teaching, are expensive and sometimes dangerous. Is the advent of computer simulation making them redundant? Alison Utley (top) and David Unwin look at the end...
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Join the club, gain status
The Institute of Learning and Teaching kicks off this autumn. Chairman Roger King looks its chances George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are "conspiracies against the laity". In...
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Virtual helicopters fly through time and space
Field trips, once a staple of geography teaching, are expensive and sometimes dangerous. Is the advent of computer simulation making them redundant? Alison Utley (top) and David Unwin look at the end...
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Excellence in teaching must have prizes
A Pounds 30 million fund is to be created to encourage better teaching in universities, says Bahram Bekhradnia (below). But the scheme is unlikely to generate real change, says Lewis Elton (far right...