New Year opening
The proposed University Mara (Unimara) in Malaysia is to take its first batch of 40 students in January 2000. Ruhanie Ahmad, Mara's chairman, said the main campus will be in Kuala Lumpur, while...
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Positive changes for post-16 sector
In its third parliamentary session, new Labour has broadened its educational focus from schools to post-16 education. The changes planned will be sweeping. The Further Education Funding Council for...
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Professing integrity
A chair is a site of academic auth-ority, not a reward for committee work, says David Robertson Woeful events at my university recently ended with the public humiliation of a long-serving colleague....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...John Kingman argued that the UK science base will suffer irreparable damage if academic pay and conditions do not improve Peter Cotgreave Director of pressure group Save...
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Blow for the data-poor
We report this week that the planned Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has put on hold a slew of university research projects proposed to the existing Libraries and Information Commission (page...
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Wanted: an independent upper house with teeth
Meg Russell looks at how the commission charged with reforming the House of Lords can serve the needs of higher education As parliamentarians gathered for the Queen's Speech this week, they were a...
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Why I...want an immediate end to the deregulation of gambling
According to a report by the University of Salford, people in the United Kingdom spend a staggering Pounds 110 million every day on gambling. It is fascinating, but also worrying, that once let off...
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A step in the right direction
After years of being ignored by government, social science is respected again. But for how long? asks Ian Forbes The social sciences are regularly accused either of having nothing to offer society...
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Taming the human element
Capital Ideas and Market Realities
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Advertisements are good for you
Brand Spirit - Advertising Advertising
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a notorious novel whose title became a byword for a practice once thought to be injurious to the...
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Case studies in values added
Business Education and Training - A Value-Laden Process - Business Education and Training - A Value-Laden Process - Business Education and Training - A Value-Laden Process - Business Education and...
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A bright future - and less orange
A New beginning - Policing in Northern Ireland
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Caribbean consciousness
Jean Rhys