Coca-Cola recruits
Phil Baty, ("Howells defends corporate degree", THES, November 14), addresses only some of the issues that surround the partnership between employers and higher education. There are other reasons why...
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Futures at Leeds
THERE IS at least one exception to Perri 6's view of British academics (THES, November 28). Since September 1996 Leeds Metropolitan University has offered a masters degree in foresight and futures...
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Loans and fees logic out of kilter
IF THE reports are correct, the Labour government is now reaching the same conclusion as its Tory predecessors: however intelligent, just and appropriate its policy, there is always a difficulty...
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Loans and fees logic out of kilter
WHEN the new fees regime is implemented, it appears that "lifelong learning" will continue to have an age limit. Student loans are only available to people aged under 50 at present. This has a knock-...
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Barrels of fishy spies
THE RECENT release into the Public Record Office of MI5 records for 1909-19 (THES, November 28) deserves to be met with a healthy dose of scepticism. The main class of material released (KV1)...
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Don's Diary
Monday A package arrives with material from the "What are Universities for?" conference, sponsored by Glaxo and The THES. I fight a rising wave of panic. Almost all the participants are vice...
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Danger in statutory controls
NEW ZEALAND's universities are not afraid of change. Through the 1990s, we adapted quickly to a completely different method of funding, a huge increase in the number of students, a sharp cut in...
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Strength through university unity
It has been put to me that a mathematician spends more time setting an examination but less time marking one than does a cultural historian. A university is made up of a variety of people from...
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1,000 extra doctors needed
BRITAIN needs to train 1,000 extra doctors every year to keep pace with changing health needs and working patterns, a new report claims. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee this week...
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The prints of darkness
Stanley Kubrick
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Reclaiming a lost Pearl
Pearl S. Buck
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Making good
Journal of Electronics Manufacturing (four times a year)
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Throng numbers
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
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So near and yet solar
Astronomy and Geophysics