Letter: Economic follies (1)
As a business person, I am deeply concerned about the directive given to universities on October 22 by the secretary of state for education. Estelle Morris told universities to work more closely with...
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Letter: Economic follies (2)
If it means recruiting the brightest 50 per cent of "poor kids" to join the brightest 50 per cent of "rich kids" at university, then Estelle Morris is right that expansion should not threaten...
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Letter: Justifiable exclusion
Auriol Stevens's assessment of higher education and the supposed gains made over the past 30 years ("A challenge for the next 30 yearsI", THES, October 19) was insulting. It trades on the view that...
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Letter: Quality defences (1)
How many more times will we hear John Randall's outrageous, endlessly repeated insinuation that British universities are somehow analogous to Railtrack? His former organisation regularly showed that...
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Letter: Quality defences (2)
Simon Jenkins is wrong to say that the research assessment exercise was crass beyond belief. He is conjuring a straw man because RAE panels assess much more evidence than quantified indices of...
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Letter: Out of the running
Despite reports ("Race is on for AUT's top job", THES, October 19), I am not a potential candidate for general secretary of the Association of University Teachers. Incidentally, if I had been, I...
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Letter: Anti-war rallying cry
In response to events of September 11, a small group of us at the University of Southampton organised a "teach-in" for the first day of term. The response from students, staff and the local community...
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Leader: Signs of change promise a more open system
Education secretary Estelle Morris this week gave welcome attention to higher education in two speeches: a general one on Monday setting out the challenge as she sees it - wider participation, world-...
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Women behaving badly for the good
Lisa Jardine chairs a discussion between Fay Weldon and Elaine Showalter on the women's movement - past, present and future. Karen Gold listens in Lisa Jardine: Can you remember, Fay, when you...
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How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune and dance to the tune of the new-girl network
Gender barriers are denying many women promotion in academia. Helen Hague asks what is being done? It is really quite touching. A 56-year-old male professor is exasperated by atalented female staff...
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Not crazy after all these years
Why did T. S. Eliot have wife Vivienne committed? She was definitely not mad, argues Carole Seymour-Jones On her death in January 1947, Vivienne Eliot left her papers to the Bodleian Library, Oxford...
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Dialogue or destruction
Muslim academic Zaki Badawi hopes that the events of September 11 will encourage the US to address the issues that inspired such atrocities. Anne Sebba reports. America must see that to stop the war...
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Latest UK news
Blaze at Glasgow University investigated An investigation is under way today into yesterday’s fire at Glasgow University, which destroyed the institution’s 100-year-old botany building. The...
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Latest international news
Nigerian students involved in bloody protests Students at Nigeria’s Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi protested against apparent military action that killed 200 villagers...
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From today's UK papers
Cheap student loans must go, says Treasury Cheap loans for students would be scrapped and limited grants introduced under a package of reforms of student finance being backed by Downing Street and...