Don's Diary
Week One Stretched out on the beach at the Radisson Plaza, awaiting our survey ship's arrival in Port Louis, Mauritius, we guiltily justify our last glimpse of paradise before our month's...
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Unilever extends hand to hard-up
Academics are under pressure to contribute towards the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa but state funds are limited and universities and academics have to look elsewhere for extra cash....
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Love them or hate them, tables are here to stay
Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston cast a critical eye over the league tables published today When it comes to league tables, people rarely sit on the fence. In university press releases they are...
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A bed of red roses
You suggest undergraduate numbers have fallen since 1996-97 (Analysis, THES , May 11). A change in the way Open University students are accounted for distorts the split between first degree and other...
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Where passion is noted
Jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim has broken free from the traditional university-based music academies in a venture aimed at reconnecting the victims of apartheid with their cultural heritage. After a...
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Alliance to dissect network economy
A firm belief in the emergence of a new economic and social geography has prompted an act of faith by a partnership focused on the London Business School. The LBS, Andersen and Lucent Technologies...
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Why I ...think research access, impact and assessment are linked
The United Kingdom leads the world in access to research in several ways. The research assessment exercise is not one of them, but this could change if we worked on the link between access and...
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Party pieces: promises and prescriptions
Labour manifesto Expansion "We will maintain university entry standards while intensifying efforts to extend the huge advantages that a university education confers to able young people from all...
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Hostages to fortune
Labour A second term - Tony Blair, speech on the economy, May 15 "Education will be our number-one micro-economic policy in a second term as it was in our first. Education and lifelong learning must...
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The third way ahead
New Labour's policies have led to real achievements and will deliver more, argues Anthony Giddens. Suppose that a Labour activist, distressed and disillusioned after the electoral defeat in 1992,...
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Unions make claims for more cash
Almost half of all higher education institutions fell into deficit last year, with six universities £5 million or more in the red, according to Association of University Teachers figures. Stepping up...
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Election is still crucial in devolved Scotland
Academic experts are eager to see the turnout, which will reveal whether Scots see the election as "first order", of key importance, or "second order", typically local election status. Most of the...
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'We have a lot more to do'
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone has admitted that the government's widening participation policies have done little so far to increase the numbers of students from poor backgrounds. She...
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Labour pledges NHS university
Higher education is one of Labour's top ten manifesto priorities, underlining Tony Blair's commitment to increase investment in universities and create a National Health university if elected for a...
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Research in tropical animal health
Deadline: 31/08/2001