College pays for drop in quality
Stockport College has had funds withdrawn as a sanction against falling standards and quality controls on three courses, writes Phil Baty. A report from the Quality Assurance Agency this week reveals...
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In the Docks
(Photograph) - One of Ken Livingstone's first tasks as mayor of London was to attend the opening of the University of East London's Docklands campus. He is pictured with Lord Rix, the university's...
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Martin Harris
Sir Martin Harris, vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, attacked the government's lack of investment in higher education at a degree ceremony this week.
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Where next as hopes of extra look blighted?
Bitter words from Manchester University's vice-chancellor, former head of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, at this week's degree ceremony. Even those who believed working with...
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Course and lodging offered to refugees
Plymouth College is offering free courses to the 500 asylum-seekers who have taken refuge in the city. If they take up the offer, they will be entitled to student housing.
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E-college may face delays
A row over which business model to pursue for the e-university threatens to delay its establishment, which is scheduled for early next year, writes Alison Goddard. A meeting of the steering group...
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Foundation degrees start small
The prospectus for foundation degree programmes Just 2,000 students are expected to enrol on foundation degree programmes next year, putting the courses' future in doubt. Margaret Murray, policy...
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HIV heretics
Although the evidence in favour of an association between HIV and Aids looks convincing (Books, THES, July 7), we know from history that in science the big battalions are often wrong. For example...
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Colin Matthew fund
I knew the late Colin Matthew only slightly but greatly admired his scholarship. More particularly, I was gratified by the interest he took in contributions I made to the New Dictionary of National...
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Engineering an exodus
So David Blunkett wants "vocational, non-academic GCSEs in subjects such as engineering, manufacturing and leisure and tourism". With that attitude, I expect many of this engineering department's PhD...
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First things first
The story "V-c's plea for firsts" (THES, June 30) implies I urged our external examiners to award more high grades to our students. This is completely untrue. Our externals need no advice from me: it...
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Pay powder keg
Local financial mismanagement and government underfunding are gradually turning the screw on staff in higher education. If the vice tightens any more, there will undoubtedly be an explosion. At this...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
If, on average, graduates pay more tax than non-graduates, then they are contributing to their education. If graduates earn the same or less than non-graduates, only then have they been subsidised,...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway et al have too rosy a view of "socially inclusive" Harvard charging high fees to the rich with big scholarship discounts for the needy. Elite American universities recruit fewer...