Action on standards
The proportion of students taken on to foundation courses after failing their A levels is tiny, the Higher Education Quality Council has told the Government. A report ordered by Gillian Shephard,...
The proportion of students taken on to foundation courses after failing their A levels is tiny, the Higher Education Quality Council has told the Government. A report ordered by Gillian Shephard,...
(Photograph) - Well dressed: Olympic dressage rider Ian Stark was the star turn at a fund-raising evening for the Pounds 6 million Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare now being built at the University...
Vice chancellors may move towards uniform degree standards when they meet in Belfast next week. The annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will receive an...
The THES Internet Service, THESIS, gets a new look today. The redesigned pages are intended both to provide a better service for our regular visitors and to attract new Internet users who have...
A quality council with its own degree-awarding powers is one of the key proposals from the Liberal Democrat party's higher education working group. The group unveiled its consultation paper at this...
El Greco, painter of tall, thin figures and Holbein, painter of shorter, stockier ones, may have suffered from eating disorders which distorted their images of body shape, a psychologist suggested...
A new current affairs magazine hits the streets next week. Simon Midgley canvassed opinion on its chances of success. Since the end of the second world war British journalism has been littered with...
Alan Smithers rightly recognises (THES, September 15) that "home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them",...
This week's Final Word comes from a Shropshire-born novelist whose work received posthumous praise from the prime minister: "Flora put her warm lips close to his cap. 'I love you,' she said. He could...
Hywel Francis on Chris Evans's, Industrial and Social History of Seven Sisters . There was a tense inquest at the Blaenllechau Radical Club. The committee was discussing the theft of the new colour...
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