Flowers favours September start

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The Flowers committee is scheduled to report on proposals for changes in the United Kingdom university academic year, in November 1993. The most favoured proposal is for a two-semester year starting in early September, a proposal backed by eleven universities in the south of England and 24 of 28 universities in the north of England. This proposal will have to be backed by examination boards since students' exam results will have to be released earlier. The committee has a second scheme for an academic year starting in November should the first option not prove acceptable.

Management, Reports, Universities and colleges, College administration

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Can academe put the bounce back into English cricket?

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The England and Wales Cricket Board is creating six university centres of excellence based on the Cricketing Centre of Excellence launched by the University of Durham in 1996, in the hope of producing truly world-class English cricketers. Each centre will employ a top-quality coach and will run a squad of around 25 players. The squads will compete against the other centres as well as playing regular fixtures against three first class county teams. The universities will decide on which students should be admitted to the centres which will open in autumn 2000.

Training, Buildings and facilities, College sports, Coaching (Athletics), Athletic coaching, Cricket players

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Devaluation of the British degree

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About 58% of 1,125 British academics surveyed believe degree standards are declining, while just 18.4% believe they are being maintained. About 35% believed assessment and quality audits are not a good guide to progress, with medicine and business the sole academic groups to consider them useful. About 54% felt universities benefit from commercial funding. Almost 39% believed contributions should be made by wealthier parents towards their child's education costs. Almost 39% also felt academic teaching staff should not have to carry out original research.

College teachers, College faculty, Surveys, Public opinion, Degrees, Academic, Academic degrees

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