Fee foes smell blood
The rhetoric of the Dearing report cannot be faulted. Its vision statement reads like a religious tract. But what if you don't believe? Do people really want to spend their lives learning? What about...
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Fee foes smell blood
About three months ago, Sir Ron told Japanese and British academics, industrialists and politicians of the communication problems he had experienced in his dealings with Japanese people. He even...
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Fee foes smell blood
Until now people wishing to enter higher education have had a comparatively easy time finding grants for first degrees, and now the next generation is objecting at being called on to find, at most,...
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Fee foes smell blood
Hopefully, your front-page summary does not do justice to the arguments and intention of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Brunel. The proposition that the effect of fees would be...
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Fee foes smell blood
IN one of your Dearing summary tables total public support for maintenance appears to rise by Pounds 1,000 per student in the better off and middle categories (except for the rise of Pounds 3,878 per...
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Cutting the red tape to catch the tigers of the east
By opting for more regulation, the Dearing committee missed its chance to improve UK higher education, says Robert Taylor Sir Ron Dearing told vice chancellors last week that if the United Kingdom...
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Playing uncle to Bulgaria
FOLLOWING the success of the Union of Democratic Forces in general elections earlier this year, it looks possible that Bulgaria may start making reforms in earnest. A United Kingdom Know How Fund (...
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Don's Diary
Monday The prospect of another strange week in limbo, after a disastrous year in which a neurological operation, followed by a term's teachings, one serious and one catastrophic fall, and another...
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Why the future is looking collegiate
I recently chaired a higher education foundation study day in Oxford on the relationship between teaching and research in the modern university. It was a think tank of 30 invited delegates...
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Dan Marsden
(Photograph) - Feeling tipsy:Leeds College of Art and Design student Dan Marsden has won a competition sponsored by Smirnoff vodka with his oddly-angled table. It will take pride of place in a Leeds...
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IT and Dearing
Proceedings of yesterday's IT and Dearing colloquium, organised by the Computers in Teaching Initiative and supported by The THES, will be published by CTISS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN; tel +44...
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College courts suitable merger partners
AIREDALE and Wharfedale College is seeking to merge with local institutions to combat a deficit and address serious management weaknesses. The Leeds college was forced to seek a merger after a...
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Union ponders strike action
FURTHER education lecturers may start the new term with a ballot for industrial action after pay and conditions negotiations with employers foundered on teaching hours. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to...
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Yeovil College
* Strikes could hit a West Country college as lecturers refuse to sign new contracts that would increase hours and cut pay. Yeovil College managers have imposed new contracts on lecturing staff from...
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Charity quits tobacco habit
A LEADING cancer charity is writing this week to all British universities for their views on how it can best disassociate its research funding from money given by tobacco companies. Last year the...