Structural Upheaval
The Engineering Council wants universities to expand the provision of accredited courses for incorporated engineers, the level immediately below chartered engineer status. In a wide-ranging document...
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Auditor eyes loans company
The National Audit Office is planning a fresh inquiry into the Student Loans Company, which is expected to report by mid-July. It also investigated the SLC in 1993. Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Net response
In the first six days of The THES Internet Service more than 2,000 connections were made. This includes institutions where there are many users as well as individuals. Between them these users made...
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Coup d'oeil
(Photograph) - Coup d'oeil: Twelve artists from diverse cultural traditions are exhibiting at Nottingham Trent University's Bonington Gallery until January 28. The theme of cultural heritage ranges...
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Dundee sets sights on biomedical brain gain
Dundee University is setting up a new biomedical sciences institute which will boost the "reverse brain drain", and will be backed by Pounds 10 million from the Wellcome Trust. The new institute,...
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Aids experts defend results
Leading Aids researchers claimed this week that they are being unfairly criticised for slow progress in finding a cure for the virus. They are also concerned that the Medical Research Council has...
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Science policy for debate
In his interview with Kam Patel (THES, January 13), Steve Jones refers to his failure to obtain research support from Natural Environment Research Council, with a quoted figure of "12 to 14 research...
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Austudy fraud case flawed
Geoff Maslen's report "Asians find 'study for free' loophole in Australia" (THES, December 16) mentions a study I co-authored about uptake rates of Austudy, Australia's government-financed support...
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Monopoly on an open mind
It is interesting how John Morton (THES, January 13) manages to transform the controversy over false memory syndrome into a contest between British chartered psychologists on the one hand and...
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Hostage of exam fortune
Gordon Kirk suggests a national agency to manage external examining, training opportunities for external examiners, national standards for sampling, the format of reporting and other matters, and the...
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Strike pressure for pay talks
Australian universities could suffer widespread disruption this year as academic and general staff begin industrial action for a 10 per cent pay rise. The National Tertiary Education Union has warned...
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Politics proves a fresher turn-off
Students entering colleges and universities in the United States this year are more turned off by politics than any group of freshers polled for their views since 1966 when the surveys started. The...
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Singapore critic charged with contempt of court
The Singapore Supreme Court last week ruled that an American academic who criticised the human rights records of Asian governments had a case to answer for contempt of court. Singapore's extreme...
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Plagiarism or pastiche?
The decision by Wolverhampton University to launch an anti-plagiarism campaign is bizarre and not a little brave. Bizarre because everyone knows it is bad to plagiarise -- literally to "kidnap" the...
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Standards geared up
It is encouraging that a profession that has made a vital contribution to Britain's prosperity during this century should be asking itself tough questions about its role and coming up with a sober...