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Scandal of the students who never sat exams
Thursday, 26 November 2009
London Metropolitan University has to repay an unprecedented £36.5m because of poor record-keeping. How many other institutions are in the same boat, asks Lucy Hodges
Leading Article: Lessons to learn
Thursday, 26 November 2009
London Metropolitan University's governors must conclude from Sir David Melville's report (see page 5) that they should have built in mechanisms to ensure they were properly informed. As it was, they didn't know what was going on.
Diary of a Third Year: Freebies are the only reason to attend a careers fair
Thursday, 19 November 2009
By Duncan Robinson
Time to wave goodbye to old-fashioned lecture notes
Thursday, 19 November 2009
When a lecturer made a video of himself marking essays, the world of academia realised he was on to something.
Leading Article: Oxbridge rules
Thursday, 19 November 2009
We should not be surprised that Oxford and Cambridge universities are so superior when compared to all others, including the highly-rated LSE, Imperial and UCL.
Meet the new nurses on £54,000
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Why has the idea that nurses should be better qualified sparked such a fierce debate?
Terence Kealey: Beware of selling your soul to the knowledge economy
Thursday, 19 November 2009
In an article I wrote in this space on the 21 June 2007 in the week Brown became Prime Minister ("We Should Be Very Afraid of Gordon Brown"), I said: "Brown respects only business people and the City, and he treats public servants as public serfs." As the PM was to show by his response to the credit crunch (he showered the City with money but is now preparing the public sector for cuts) that wasn't a bad prediction of his actions in Number 10.
Leading Article: Good start for fees review
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Lord Mandelson has managed to secure an impressive line-up for his review of university funding, which is expected to recommended that top-up fees be increased. Lord Browne, who spent his life in BP, rising from lowly graduate recruit to CEO, is widely admired for his expertise and will be ably supported, among others, by Sir Michael Barber, the former head of Tony Blair's delivery unit, the economist Diane Coyle, formerly of this newspaper, and Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University and one of the cleverest minds in higher education. Moreover he has managed to keep the NUS happy by including a young person, Ranjay Naik, who used be on the English Secondary Students Association.
Students get new courses for the 21st century
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Aberdeen is the first British university to carry out a thorough review of what it teaches. But, asks Lucy Hodges, will the customers like it?
Bob Burgess: I hope student records make degree classes obsolete
Thursday, 5 November 2009
In the next academic year, many universities will pilot new records of student achievement that could replace our 200-year-old system of degree classification.
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