Sudden drop in Bar pass rate prompts inquiry
An inquiry has been launched by the Council of Legal Education into the first significant drop in the pass rate of Bar School students. The CLE announced this week that the proportion of students...
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Grade A tips
Anyone about to enter a North American university and concerned about the criteria in their all-pervasive grading system could do worse than consult Chad Nelson, a graduate student at Simon Fraser...
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Small molecules, big breakthrough
Edinburgh University has joined forces with a clutch of pharmaceutical firms to carry out research that could lead to a better understanding of how small molecules interact with cellular proteins....
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Level heads and playing fields
Dear Ron... In the third of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Tony Wood, (left) vice chancellor of the University of Luton, takes pride in his university's...
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A very disturbing view of management studies
I read the first part of Alexander Murray's article on the development of management studies at Oxford (THES, August 2) with some sympathy. When resources are limited, to devote them to one cause may...
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Reforms will curb power of 'barons'
Cambridge University is set to modernise its professorial promotions system in an effort to curb the age-old abuse of academic patronage. Campaigners are viewing it as the first step in a long-...
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Green fingers
Adrian James, a scientist at University College London, is confident that his new device (a fast omni-directional non-scanning energy mass analyser) will be safe with aircraft baggage handlers when...
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Lessons from Direct Line
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Paisley University believes it is the first higher education institution to set up...
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Flexibility no help to dole
Creating a more flexible labour market will not reduce unemployment in developed countries, new research has found. In a paper published in the Economic Journal in July, Francis Teal, a member of...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Like Anna Tobin (THES, July 26) I take the quality of teaching very seriously. Her...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. The Italian academic year may not be intense but it is long, stretching from mid-September to the end of July. In Bologna it is usually stifling and humid by now, but clear sunshine and warm...
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Poor colleges get cash prop
Measures to bolster ailing former public sector institutions have been introduced by Welsh funding chiefs. A "restructuring fund" worth Pounds 700,000 has been revised by the Higher Education Funding...
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Trio takes a peep through the letterbox
If being in the right place at the right time counts for anything, the trio of Miguel Martinez, Mike Noon and Sarah Jenkins should enjoy spectacularly successful careers. The trio - all at Cardiff...
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Newcastle bairn
Highly expensive centre forward Alan Shearer is not the only new arrival to hit Newcastle in the last couple of weeks. Just as welcome and equally surprising to his parents, if rather less costly, is...
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Chemists to make complex simple
Heriot-Watt University is launching a "communicating science" initiative that aims to help young scientists across the country to explain their work to a broader public. The Esso Teaching Resources...