Letter: Just who is Randall kidding?
Top-up fees have no place in a publicly funded education system, as most taxpayers would be paying for a club that would not accept them as members. That is a fairness issue, not one of quality....
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Letter: Just who is Randall kidding?
John Randall has some neck to again be firing warning shots at higher education. He leads an organisation that: * Lacks a proper complaints and appeal procedure * Has been criticised for confusion...
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Letter: Lessons of Swansea
The story about the dismissal of Swansea University student union manager Nick Tregoning (For the Record, THES, January 12) raises a number of serious issues. The student sabbaticals summarily...
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Letter: In brief
If Christoph Bluth (Letters, THES, January 5) can call the research assessment exercise a golden goose, then I can call the Hatfield derailment a golden goose, too. Robin Whitty South Bank University
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Letter: In brief
I am doing an MPhil and have a 2:1 honours degree in materials science, in which I received high maths-related results. But when I applied to become a maths teacher on the government's fast-track...
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Leader: Raise the status of GPs
The pace of innovation in medical research means that doctors have to be customers of lifelong learning. They cannot cope without keeping abreast of new biomedical understanding and the new...
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Leader: Mergers mean bigger, but not not always better
After the 1990s, when polytechnics wanted to be Oxbridge, we face the zeroes, when ancient universities will try to be polytechnics. That, at least, is the message Sir David Watson and others will...
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Student Focus
Debt coexists with designer clothes and mobile phones. Student accommodation standards are rising, but more are choosing to live at home. Political radicalism has waned, but students are far from...
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Student Focus: <br> A problem, and solution, shared...
A record number of students with mental health problems has highlighted the need for universities to pool their expertise in pastoral care. Leicester University is leading the way. When the...
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Student Focus: <br> Debt, designer clothes and dwindling politics
Mandy Garner looks at a major survey on student attitudes to life, work and mobile phones. Students estimate that they will be saddled with an average debt of £7,026 by the time they have finished...
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Student Focus: <br> Does home work or is it better to breakaway?
Harriet Swain finds out why more students are choosing to live at home. Dodgy flatmates and mouldy fridges tend to play as large a role in graduates' memories of their university days as the finer...
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Student Focus: <br> I'd prefer a Barratt to a garret
As the costs of higher education increase, undergraduates are demanding more for their money - and that includes better accommodation. Harriet Swain reports on how the universities are responding....
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Student Focus: Poor bums, shoddy seats
In the future, degrees could be ten a penny, while a 'prestigious' PhD might cost a mint,. Pants lined with sensors that detect and respond to changes in the body's temperature have been shown to...
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Student Focus: <br> The courage to deconstruct Raiders <br> of the Lost Ark must be acquired
The ability to analyse easy texts comes only after rigorous work on difficult ones. Diane Purkiss explains why Oxford students outperform those bred on a diet of pick 'n' mix. Students, as we all...
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Student Focus: <br> The party's over, let's save the world
Although political radicalism has waned in UK universities since the 1960s, Chris Bunting discovers that some students are far from apathetic about issues of a more global nature. More than a quarter...