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Reports on the proposed higher level vocational qualification proposed in the report `General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ),' in Great Britain. Purpose of the higher GNVQ; Importance to higher education.

Reports on the workloads and pressures put on the social workers in Great Britain. Report of Tony Hall, director of the Central council for Education and Training in Social Work; Recommendations.

Reports on the pastoral care and counselling services offered by the Cleveland College in Redcar, England. Description of the responsibilities of employed student advisor; Pressures placed on the staff by the college's incorporation under the Further Education Funding Council; Financial problems experienced by the school; Implications of the merger with other regional schools.

Discusses the views of Sir Gordon Higginson on the reform of the post-16 curriculum in Great Britain. Modularization of some A levels; Rise in status of vocational qualifications; Credit accumulation and transfer arrangements; More entry routes into higher education; Higginson's retirement in September 1994 as vice chancellor of Southampton University; Problems in teaching of mathematics and physical sciences.

Reports on the opening of 1963 government files by Britain's Public Record Office on January 1994. Response to a campaign by the Institute of Contemporary British History for release of documents; Spectacular political events of 1963.

Reveals that the British press seemed unable to give a clear lead to their readers during the 1997 general election. Analysis of the framing of stories; Tendency to respond to public opinion rather than setting it.

Examines the factors affecting the quality of prints. Difference in the quality of color on different papers; Variation in surface textures; Lack of bleeding or feathering in the prints.

Opinion. Comments on the quality assurance standards on higher education, published by the British Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in 1998. Response given to a consultation paper released by the QAA; Examination of proposals included in these standards; Description of a model proposed in these standards; Outline of the QAA's approach to higher education standards.

The article reports on the sale of scholarly papers on Amazon.com without the knowledge or consent of authors. The academic papers are being sold for as low as $5.95. Amazon has arrangements to sell academic articles through companies that secure the rights to the content of journals from publishers. The British Joint Information Systems Committee advises academics to reconsider their publishing agreements with journals to protect their intellectual property rights.

Reports on the accusation of plagiarism against Peter Levin, an educational development professional at the London School of Economics in England, regarding his paper on the overzealous policing of plagiarism in higher education in Great Britain. Admission of Levin that there was an error in the electronic formatting of the paper; Identification of Jon Appleton, an expert on plagiarism from Oxford Brookes University in England, as the key accuser of Levin; Inquiry of education consultant Duncan Williamson on the fairness of accusing Levin.

Introduces several academic papers published by John W. Trinkaus, winner of the Ig Nobel Literature Prize in England in 2003. Publication of Trinkaus' papers in the journals 'Perceptual and Motor Skills' and ' Psychological Reports'; Trinkaus' papers on workers' arrivals and departures, stop sign compliance, arcane video games, human communications, waiting times in physicians' offices.

Reports that the European Commission is planning to transform the European Union's Framework research program as a tool to bring the idea of a single European research area nearer reality. Release of proposals for the European Union's Framework 6 program in a commission discussion paper; Subjects recommended to be treated as priorities under the discussion paper released by the European Commission. INSET: FINDINGS, by Steve Farrar..

Opinion. Comments on Wellcome Trust's Research Outputs Database, which determine the sources of funding for each biomedical research papers. Inspection of the original paper for analysis purposes; Identification of post-code area; Types of sources of funding.

Examines the science and technology White Paper and the damage it poses to research. Competitive excellence; Economic use of resources; Managerial efficiency; Systematics exploitation of scientific discoveries; Detriments to good science; Use of words in White Paper interpreted with zeal; Accountability; Evaluation; Selectivity; Research training; Exploitation; Objectives; Priority setting; Competition; Tendering; Management; Research organization measures.

Reports that more than 150 social policy academics supported a letter which opposed the British government's green paper entitled `A New Contract for Welfare.' What the proposed reforms are designed to do; Draft of paper by former minister of welfare, Frank Field; Reference to the resignation of Field following a Cabinet reshuffle; Content of this letter.

Focuses on the views of various academic individuals regarding the transport white paper, which seeks to charge drivers in Great Britain. Comments from Tony Ridley, former managing director of Eurotunnel and ex-chairman and chief executive of London Underground; Views of Stephen Glaister, of the London School of Economics; Information on a strategy for road pricing. INSETS: What the transport white paper says:;Travelcards for cars.

States that according to a paper for the Department for Education and Employment academics should become pro-active careers advisers to their students. Identification of the key message of the paper; Comments from Roly Cockman, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters; Information on a discovery made by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, professor of physics at the Open University.

This article discusses the proposals to increase the engagement of young people in politics in the Green Paper "The Governance of Britain" released by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2007. The Green Paper proposes to appoint a Youth Citizenship Commission to address the perceived threat of political alienation among young people. It also calls for more civic education in citizenship and national identity.

The article presents information on the contributions of staff members of the University of Poppleton in Great Britain to environmental conservation. A library staff recycled low-utilization books into paper cups for use in the snack bar in the library's Reference Section. A departmental secretary was commended for her decision to discontinue the practice of sending paper circulars to staff members. A vice chancellor was recognized for his contribution to emissions control on campus.

The article focuses on issues related to the forthcoming paper by British independent researcher Christopher Bearman, which compares modern Islamic terrorists to the militant suffragette movement that secured British women the vote. The paper presents a view on whether the suffragettes should be considered terrorists.

The article focuses on the online research paper archive scheme for academics at Brunel University in Middlesex, England. University project manager John Murtagh states that the number of citations could increase by archiving research papers on Web sites. Academics in mathematics and computing department must submit their papers in the database starting in January 2007. The scheme would allow academics to determine the date their paper was read and the location of the reader.

The article offers information on research papers on students' representations of the assessment process in drawings and stories presented at a conference on alternative approach to educational research of the Middlesex University in London, England in December 2006. The paper by Chris McKilop of Gray's School of Art at Robert Gordon University in Scotland had a negative reaction to assessment which could impede learning. Another paper states that poetry and metaphor can forge identities of students as creative researchers.

This article reports on a statement issued by Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), in an internal paper of the UCU saying that hundreds of lecturers who participated in a marking boycott in 2005 suffered significant pay deductions of up to 40 percent without the kind of support members expect from the union. The paper also said some lecturers were advised by the union to take legal test to try to recover their docked pay, as outriders for hundreds of their colleagues.

This article focuses on a briefing paper that was issued by the Quality Assurance Agency regarding a system for awarding student degree classifications in Great Britain. This paper is aimed at increasing the momentum towards the cancellation of the traditional system of awarding first, upper and lower seconds and third-class degrees. The briefing paper was made for the Burgess Group.

The article reports on the results of an analysis of "Library Quarterly," "The Journal of Academic Librarianship" and College & Research Libraries" conducted by Malin Hakånson on the citation of female academics in the references to the work of male academics. Only 30 percent of the citations in the papers of male academics related to female academics was found by Hakånson in 2000. One of the explanations given by Hakånson on the discrepancy is the delay of several years between the time an academic paper was written and when it was published by a journal.

Provides information on a study which compared the attitudes of male and female academics to presenting papers. Differences in the way both sexes view public speaking and in their response to feeling nervous; Factors that affect the attitudes of female lecturers in the process of giving academic papers; Reason women are more likely to fell personally undermined in terms of public speaking.

Reveals that the Oxford University in England will publish a white paper on governance in June 2006. Information on the structure of the board of trustees, proposed by Vice-chancellor John Hood; Result of the failure to establish a fully fledged board of scrutiny; Aim of the white paper.

The article reports on a paper which criticized that the higher education watchdog Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) risks being too deep in universities in Great Britain. The paper was released by the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies in 2006. The arguments presented by the center in its claims against the watchdog are given. In addition, the article provides a statement issued by the QAA regarding the paper.

Reports on the observation of Hau Hing Chau, a lecturer and a teaching fellow in product design at Leeds University in England, on the pressure on junior academics to have their research published in Great Britain. Interest of senior academics in the quantity of published journal papers and research grant applications; Influence of research assessment exercise on the pressure to publish; Assertion on the significance of the quality of papers rather than quantity.

The article reports on the possible cancellation of the final-year exams at Sheffield University in Sheffield, England. The exams will be cancelled because the university faces an industrial action over pay of teachers. Paul White, pro vice-chancellor at Sheffield, says that the university received less than 60 percent examination papers due to the boycott by the Association of University Teachers. The university claims that the exam papers being submitted was increasing on a daily basis.

Reports on the results of a paper on remedial mathematics help for university economics students to be presented to the Royal Economic Society annual conference in April 2006. Conclusion of the paper; Information on the project focused on economics funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England; Significance of the study to remedial help.

Reports on the claim that young academics avoid editing roles in favour of publishing academic research papers due to pressures generated by the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE) in England. Complaint raised by senior editors of academic collections in the humanities; Impact of the RAE pressure on young academics and academic work; Reason of young academics for focusing on publishing research papers.

The article focuses on Simon Burgess, professor of economics at Bristol University and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. He presented the findings of research on the economics of parental choice to the Prime Minister's Strategy unit the day before the British government published its White Paper on education. He reacted to the White paper saying that he wants to see more emphasis being placed on support for poorer families to make choices.

Reports on the call of a group of senior Oxford University academics in England for an improved system of checks and balances on university management to monitor the decisions made by senior managers. Necessity for a board of scrutiny based on a paper produced on behalf of the academics; Overview of recommendations cited in the paper.

The article informs that the journal "The Times Higher" and its sister titles in TSL Education Ltd. are to be bought by Exponent Private Equity, it was announced this week. The sale will be completed on October 18. Since 1981, the paper has been owned by News International PLC, which has overseen rises in its circulation and turnover. The paper will continue to carry The Times title and its publication arrangements will remain unchanged.

Reports that Oxford University has dropped plans to establish a body of external representatives to oversee its affairs in England. University's previous proposal to create a board of external trustees; Revised governance green paper's recommendation to establish a council which would initially be chaired by Oxford's chancellor Christopher Patten; Reactions of college heads to the revised green paper.

Comments on key issues pertaining to the authorship of scientific papers and journals in undergraduate universities in Great Britain including doctoral students, postdoctorates and professors. Efforts of students and several professors to conceal methodological flaws in scientific papers; Trends in writing academic and scientific papers; Indications of higher education.

Provides information about the research paper "A Longitudinal Analysis of Television Viewing Habits 2004-05," by Professor Gordon Lapping. Abstract of the research paper; Details on how the results were disseminated.

Reports on the ranking of Great Britain as the second most productive country in terms of publishing scientific papers. Production level of scientific papers; Outcome of the global analysis of research papers.

Announces the rediscovery of papers containing a geological analysis of D-day invasion beaches among Birmingham University archives. Documents found including research reports, maps, photographs and the transcript of the interrogation of a German army geologist; Allied forces' use of papers detailing the results of geological surveys of the beaches in Northern France in their choice of landing sites; Details of the research work done on the beaches by Fred Shotton; Birmingham's former vice-principal and Lapworth professor of geology.

Ministers in Great Britain are reconsidering white-paper plans to create "teaching-only universities," after the proposals were rejected by existing universities on the grounds that they threaten the link between teaching and research. Higher education minister Alan Johnson confirmed this week that he would carefully consider responses froth a consultation on teaching-only institutions before making a final decision on how to proceed. At present, the "university" title is used only by institutions with the power to award both taught degrees and higher research degrees. But in its January 2003 white paper, the Department for Education and Skills in Great Britain, said it was not necessary to be active in cutting-edge research to be an excellent teacher.