Lecturer pledges to fight on
Phil Baty reports on the final rounds of a lecturer's long legal fight to open up Cambridge's promotions system "I'M SURE the Cambridge managers would like to drop me in the river in a plastic bag...
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Science departments under threat
University of Wales, Swansea, is reviewing the future of its chemistry and physics departments. Peter Townsend, pro vice chancellor (administration), said this week: "We think collaboration with our...
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Physics takes off, slowly
After seven years of absolute decline, the number of students taking A-level physics rose for the first time this year - but only just. Following year-on-year drops that have seen numbers taking...
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The double jeopardy of fees
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education IN 1993, the Labour higher education spokesman,...
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Cliched Dearing gets a D for disappointment
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education THE DEARING committee was a once-in-a-generation...
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Out of the Ivy League
Rutgers University is said to be a member of the Ivy League (THES, August 15). Although Rutgers competes against some Ivy League institutions in some athletic contests, it is not a member of the Ivy...
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Court within its rights
THE ARTICLE "British Council rubbishes Madras High Court" (THES, August 8), which uses the word "paranoid" when describing the court's interim injunction over foreign degrees, was both inaccurate and...
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The virtues of Latin
SUE WILKS'S potential legal challenge on the "sexist" bachelors and masters degrees awarded by UK universities (THES, August 15) raises interesting issues. Could I suggest a solution to her campaign...
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Inviting independent incentives
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education NOW WE know that the era of free higher education...
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Tut-tutting over the fantastic elastic education system
I think the Government got it more right than Sir Ron Dearing. Apparently they have both found in higher education that rare commodity for which demand is perfectly inelastic - we can increase...
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Historic rewrite required
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a chemist whose knowledge of chemistry saved his life: "There are the so-...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Ten days to go before setting off on holiday, just enough time to finish the last chapter and clear my desk. The press release on Warwick's election of first woman pro-vice chancellor went...
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An atomised history of the Great Vowel Shift
A History of the English Language
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Helen of Troy meets Helen of Trinidad
Tropical Classical