Unclear route for the rest
GNVQs fail to make the grade on three counts, Alan Smithers argues. England and Wales, indeed the whole of the United Kingdom, vitally need a good applied education route for educational reasons. We...
GNVQs fail to make the grade on three counts, Alan Smithers argues. England and Wales, indeed the whole of the United Kingdom, vitally need a good applied education route for educational reasons. We...
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
Greenpeace's Sue Mayer (THES, August 25) chose to misinterpret some of my written words and to quote others out of context. In my Brent Spar article (THES, August 11) I did not write that "dumping...
I would, for the record, point out that Sheffield achieved the integration of its local nursing and midwifery college, as a full school of its faculty of medicine, on April 1 this year ("Nottingham...
Will Podmore's letter "Let the Yugoslavs fight their civil war" (THES, August 25) repeated common myths and failed to describe the reality of the conflict in the Balkans. He asked important questions...
A series of radio spots in which celebrities will talk about "My Favourite Professor" is being planned in the United States. Faced with a hostile Congress and a battery of negative publicity, the 44,...
Bitter opponents of the University of California regents, who last month voted to end "affirmative action" or positive discrimination programmes on nine state campuses, have taken to the Internet to...
The creation of a law school at Pandio University in Athens has become a point of contention for politicians and academics who accuse each other openly of serving vested interests. Pandio University'...
Germany's "minister for the future" has detailed his plans to shift education funds into research and technology - and unleashed a new storm of controversy about the future financing of higher...
Fay Haussman on a project aimed at reconciling man and the environment of the Brazilian rainforest. Marina Silva, the new federal senator for Acre, Brazil's westernmost Amazonian state, recently went...
Lucia Civetta lives in something approaching heaven for a vulcanologist. A lecturer in geology and vulcanology at Naples University, she is also the director of the Vesuvius Observatory, which...
Alaksandr Lukashenka, the Soviet-leaning president of Belarus, has denied issuing a decree banning all university text books in the humanities and social sciences published since 1992. The decree,...
It is hard to say whether Rabelais would have been amused. Certainly no one in authority was when the editors of a La Trobe University student newspaper named after the great French satirist...
France's first private "university" - the brainchild of former interior minister Charles Pasqua - opens on September 4 for just 100 to 200 students after an investment of Fr1.2 billion (Pounds 156...