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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Researchers at University College London surveyed 600 employees of the Property Services Agency, which was privatised in the mid-1990s, and found that privatisation is bad for your...
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Laurie Taylor
Hard-up academics are being lured from the lecture hall to the classroom to help schools cope with teacher shortages - THES , March 9. Good morning, class 3b. My name is Lapping. I am your new...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (1)
I must reject claims of "paralysis" at Universities UK after our recent meeting in Newcastle ("V-cs attacked for ducking fight for cash", THES, March 9). Nothing could be further from the truth. The...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (2)
It is not surprising that UUK is ducking out of a fight with the government over funding. Vice-chancellors, like much of British academe, lack a crucial weapon in any contest: the willingness to...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (3)
The failure of vice-chancellors to fight for more funding comes as no surprise. The way they have squeezed staff salaries and hounded students for debt suggests they are more intent on reducing...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (4)
Sir Howard Newby may see "no point in pressing for specific proposals on funding" because he no doubt believes that the "budget boosts funding" and "universities will benefit from a raft of measures...
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Letter: Examiner fee examined (1)
Gerald Mars complains about being paid only £105 for external examining (Letters, THES, March 9). Next time, he might try drawing attention to the minimum rates recommended by the Association of...
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Letter: Examiner fee examined (2)
Gerald Mars's letter highlights the connivance of senior management in keeping academic pay at levels well below those in commerce and industry. Most registrars would say that the PhD examination fee...
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Letter: What social policy?
As the most recent past external examiner to the social policy courses at Sussex University, I was interested to read new pro vice-chancellor Mary Stuart's views on universities needing to "...
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Letter: Right against right
Upon reading the article about Edward Said ("Critical thinking on the path to peace", THES, March 9), it struck me how symmetrical the situation in the Israel-Palestinian conflict has become,...
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Letter: Natal defended
For months the University of Natal has had to endure a stream of insults from Caroline White, formerly a professor at the university, that have been given much prominence in the media. In a recent...
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Leader: Valuable lessons to be learnt from looking up
Anyone with the cinema habit knows that outer space is jammed with objects that threaten to collide with the Earth and extinguish human life. But whether it is worth doing anything about the threat...
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Leader: Education must reflect changes in rural workforce
Much has changed in the British countryside in recent years. The foot-and-mouth epidemic will mean more and faster reforms. In turn, this will probably mean a smaller and more heavily educated...
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Architect of a stable world
Forrest Capie looks at the last years of Keynes's remarkable life. This is the third and final volume of what has generally come to be regarded as a masterpiece in biography. It is 30 years since...