Top-up fees: prudence or betrayal? 1
Michael Wise overstates the shortcomings of ߣߣÊÓƵ's Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Letters, THES , January 31). Hecs did reduce the general taxpayer's contribution to higher education, but...
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Top-up fees: prudence or betrayal? 2
The government appears intent on perpetuating a perverse feature of its post-1997 reorganisation of student funding. Whereas most middle-class students were made £1,000 a year worse off when fees...
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Reflect a little 1
Alan Sinfield hits out at the "self-appointing Council for College and University English" ("Reader, you are not welcome", THES , February 14). CCUE membership is open to all UK English departments...
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Reflect a little 2
I was tickled by Alan Sinfield's view of reading. Apparently ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class dictate our book choice. Gosh. But that's only our starting point. The process of reading is...
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One smalls problem
The story about 58 Thai students arrested for cheating (Diary, News: International, THES , February 7) raised some intriguing questions. The students were, reportedly, sitting multiple-choice exams...
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Hold fire on Iraq
If United Nations Security Council members, under US government threats, pass a resolution permitting an attack on Iraq, they will be acting ultra vires , beyond their legitimate powers, because such...
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Who wears the ears?
So higher education minister Margaret Hodge blames universities for providing "Mickey Mouse" courses ("Mickey Mouse row revived", THES , February 14). She and successive governments need to look in...
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Hacks hold the reins
Tom Hickey asked "why didn't we say no" to the degradation of academia (Soapbox, THES , January 24)? It is true that the state has forced much of this on academia, but it could hardly have done so...
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Unmistakable link
Mona Baker has involved the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the dispute over her dismissal of two Israelis from the editorial board of periodicals she publishes ("...
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Money talks 1
In an academic environment in which truth is what you can get away with, full marks must go to Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, who argued on the basis of "proper comparisons" (...
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Money talks 2
Andrew Oswald justifies £10,000 pay increases for vice-chancellors (Soapbox, THES , February 7) by saying: "It is plain that vice-chancellors are underpaid, not overpaid. It's a rough job that takes...
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Balkan and Black sea countries key to developing a wider ERA, conference told
Brussels, 19 Feb 2003 The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) is a unique opportunity for the Balkan and Black sea countries to mobilise their scientific resources and contribute to the development of a...
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Political agreement on community patent expected by May 2003, says Deniozos
Brussels, 19 Feb 2003 The new compromise by the Greek presidency on the community patent should result in a political agreement by no later than May 2003, Dimitris Deniozos, the Greek General...
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Bright comet is really NEAT
Paris, 19 Feb 2003 Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) is putting on a fine show for ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) space probe. As the comet swings closer to the Sun, it has gotten brighter...
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Language study just for the elite A quarter of all Britain's students studying for foreign language degrees are concentrated at only five universities as specialist learning at sixth form and in...