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Article Abstract:

The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the watchdog for educational standards at higher education institutions in the UK, is a classic monopoly and should be subject to real competition. It is contended that a number of the largest auditing companies would be capable of conducting audits of academic operations and the entry of such companies into the market would prove to be good for the higher education sector, good for the taxpayer and, ultimately, good for the QAA.

Evaluation, Education, Educational standards

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Cue the praying hands and ill-informed bow

Article Abstract:

A Japanese English Literature PhD candidate at Girton College, Cambridge, relates her experiences of the university system in the United Kingdom. She notes that while universities in the United Kingdom are attempting to attract more students, there is no coordinated effort to provide services such as targeted instruction in academic writing in English, which would be invaluable to students for whom English is a second language.

Students, Foreign, Foreign students

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O brave new world of caffe latte and couscous

Article Abstract:

Team leaders in the catering departments at Stirling University and York University spend a day seeing how the other operates. Both feel that they are loyal to their staff, whom they believe can provide a wealth of ideas, but that managers from outside their departments too often dismiss suggestions.

Eating places, Comparative analysis, Food services, York University, Stirling University, College facilities

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