Back to basics allows entire sector to blossom
For over a century, teachers have been campaigning for a professional body. Now they have one, with the launch this week of the General Teaching Council (page 7). If the GTC can restore teaching as a...
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Not as clear cut as the hatchet wielders think
Ian Beer believes that it is unfair to caricature independent schools as the tools of a self-perpetuating elite It has been difficult to work out exactly what this summer's row about university...
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Top-up fees will require a political balancing act
From the point of view of the student, the arrival of fees and the abolition of grants mean the same thing - less money and more debt. To university managers, they are different creatures....
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Support for support
While supporting most recent comments about pay and Bett, I do not believe that the blame lies solely with the lack of government funding. Universities have taken decisions to reduce the percentage...
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Wham, bam, no thanks Uncle Sam
I am amazed at the number of American professors whose contributions to The THES display not only a total ignorance of our system, but, much worse, an inability to see the lack of coherence and logic...
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Wham, bam, no thanks Uncle Sam
It is unfortunate that the strategic value of raising university endowments is judged entirely by the amount of money that can be raised quickly. Even worse is the idea that such endowments should be...
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Wham, bam, no thanks Uncle Sam
Limited raw materials and high standards of living mean future UK prosperity will be guaranteed only if we can deliver high-value, innovative products and services. These will come if we have...
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Wham, bam, no thanks Uncle Sam
Tim Knox (Opinion, THES, September 8) paints a picture of long-suffering universities being repeatedly undermined by the state. But students have had it much harder. We have seen many changes for the...
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Sign on to study
A 2 per cent income surtax on graduates would be a good idea (Letters, THES, September 8) if it created automatic funding and eliminated the chase for scholarships, grants and so on. How many hours...
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Copyright wrongs
Alan Story is misleading readers because of his inability to research his topic sufficiently before putting pen to paper (Letters, THES, September 15). Let me therefore set the record straight. There...
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Sci-fi horror
I was horrified by my article "Turning science fiction into fact" (Research, THES, September 8), and I hoped for a week that no one in the academic science-fiction community would notice. But they...
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Struggles for equality
Forgive me for questioning the accuracy of your report on my contribution to the debate on widening access to higher education at the European Access Network annual convention in Santiago de...
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Radicals in retreat
Nick Crossley says that student protests are a thing of the past - at least in Greater Manchester From Paulsgrove to Prague, via gridlocked roads and empty fuel stations, protest has been in the air...
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Why I...have spent my life studying petrol
Petrol station design is the ultimate form of modern international architecture - unique to the 20th century and produced on a mass scale. Petrol itself is not a desirable product, which goes a long...
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QAA framework 'a farce'
Tony Tysome Universities and colleges have warned that the standing of foundation degrees and the integrity of higher education have been jeopardised by proposals for a national qualifications...