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Legal threat to admissions tests The day when a parent takes a university to court over its decision not to admit their son or daughter is not far off, admissions officers were yesterday warned....
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Staff-to-student ratios in higher education are now worse than in schools" - The Times Higher , November 11. From: The Director, Teaching Quality Unit I am writing to let you know that this...
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Despite being born of anti-Semitism, a system that looks beyond exam marks is the best route to true student diversity One of the best features of US universities is the admissions system - yet in...
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Leader: Confronting the dropout clichés
Do universities waste individuals' time and taxpayers' money when they recruit students who later drop out? The message behind current official performance indicators and funding arrangements is that...
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Leader: Welcome call for clarity
Only one message will have reached most of the public from Sir Andrew Foster's report on further education: that a significant (but unspecified) proportion of colleges are failing and should be taken...
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Degrees cost but are not for sale 1
So Sir Howard Newby thinks that the introduction of top-up fees will turn students into consumers and lecturers into service providers ("'Customer' students to call tune", November 11). While his...
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Degrees cost but are not for sale 2
I was perturbed to read Sir Howard Newby's comments on students as clients. In my experience, students do not wish to "buy a great degree", what they do want is a high level of academic and support...
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Degrees cost but are not for sale 3
The ideas behind the student as a customer are complex, touching on a variety of issues includingJthe law and dispute resolution, the role of the university and its members, the semiotics of the...
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Divided on divide 1
Brian Morton is incorrect to conclude that C. P. Snow's two-cultures divide still exists in both directions (Opinion, November 11). Most scientists "do" the arts for fun, everything from reading...
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Divided on divide 2
Brian Morton's article is a travesty of the famous F. R. Leavis-C. P. Snow controversy - which did not spark a furious debate between the contenders, as Snow did not reply to Leavis. Leavis's central...
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Developing issues 1
Lecturers' union Natfhe is not alone in its concerns about the atmosphere created by the leadership of Leeds Metropolitan University ("Union accuses v-c of mass bullying", November 4). Unison members...
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Developing issues 2
Jco-organised and chaired a visiting guest lecture as part of the staff development event at Leeds Metropolitan University. So I'm for staff development. But for Sally Brown to cite 3,500 attendances...
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Crippling lack of cash
The National Health Service Student Grants Unit has not yet paid childcare allowances or dependants' allowances to huge numbers of student nurses despite being under a legal obligation to do so....
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Gats: a public good?
Your article "SA claims free trade will undermine national values" (November 11) quotes the chief executive of the South African Council on Higher Education (Saleem Badat) as asserting that "higher...
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Corporate takeover
Winston Fletcher's review of Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester's biography of fashion tycoon Philip Green ("Oodles of goodwill for a high-rolling gambler", November 11) omits mention of Green'...