Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor Subject : New alcohol guidelines Following last month's fracas in the SCR of Mother Theresa College, in which a member of the university Quality Assessment...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor Subject : New alcohol guidelines Following last month's fracas in the SCR of Mother Theresa College, in which a member of the university Quality Assessment...
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Alan Ryan
Reactions to Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory have been entertaining, even if Iain Duncan Smith's ill-judged attempt to set himself up as the "Terminator" of the Labour project was more sad than funny...
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Alan Ryan
Reactions to Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory have been entertaining, even if Iain Duncan Smith's ill-judged attempt to set himself up as the "Terminator" of the Labour project was more sad than funny...
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Leader: Employers need foundation role
Foundation degrees are key to the government's planned expansion of higher education. Almost 10,000 students are taking them and the number is set to grow. But a study this week shows that they are...
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Leader: EU intake and fees
The government would be unwise to ignore the warning from the British Council that its top-up fees policy may deter students from the European Union from considering a British university. Any...
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Leader: Employers need foundation role
Foundation degrees are key to the government's planned expansion of higher education. Almost 10,000 students are taking them and the number is set to grow. But a study this week shows that they are...
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Leader: EU intake and fees
The government would be unwise to ignore the warning from the British Council that its top-up fees policy may deter students from the European Union from considering a British university. Any...
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Skewing the evidence 2
The phrase "since the 2001 al-Qaida attacks" was wrongly attributed to me. In my view, "al-Qaida", as an omnipotent terrorist organisation, is a figment of the US media's imagination and there's no...
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Accidental funding 1
I have much sympathy with the Higher Education Funding Council for England's wish to maintain the "cherished principle" that similar courses should receive public funding at similar levels ("Fees...
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Healthy manoeuvre
Some may fear the prospect of the National Health Service University poaching pre-registration nursing education ("Health academics voice fears over NHSU takeover", THES , October 17), others may not...
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Too bright to see
The photograph accompanying "Night light hinders UK astronomers" ( THES , October 17) was not an example of light pollution that prevents us observing the night sky but a perfect image of the Milky...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 2
I was alarmed by Frank Furedi's selective use of our 2001-02 survey data on counselling in higher and further education. In trumpeting his claims of a rampant "therapy culture" in British...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 3
Some of the most academically brilliant students have some form of psychological problem. Would Frank Furedi rather they were not supported in a way that enables them to fulfil their potential? Would...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 5
The news story "Mentors count personal costs" ( THES , October 17) thankfully, but unknowingly, pre-empted Frank Furedi's provocative twaddle. Student mentors, who do not have their own mentors,...