Students as customers will demand value for cash
In the third of our series on the big issues in the Dearing debate, Kate Jenkins draws attention to the needs and demands of students Any British student going to university has already survived an...
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Scots must get steer the debate
As The THES went to press Scotland was still waiting to know how it will fare for extra cash. This was presented by Scottish education minister Brian Wilson as evidence of robustly independent...
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Cooperative society
The International Islamic University of Malaysia is far from the intolerant institution portrayed in a recent THES article, says Subki Bin Ahmad Shabbir Akhtar made several allegations against the...
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How to sail through life on the Seven Cs
Social skills are as necessary as academic success, says Alec Reed who teaches business students a course called LIES Today's educational agenda is more and more concerned with academic standards....
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Not taking it any more
MEDICAL doctors' groups asking for a further 10 per cent pay rise on top of their recent inflation-busting salary increases justify their claim by asking for parity with other professionals. As a...
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Pay review body is vital
I AGREE with John Ashworth (THES, September 19) that the primary task of the Dearing report was to address university funding, and that the Government must be pressed to rise to Dearing's challenge...
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No mobility, no jobs
I WAS surprised to learn that the pro vice chancellor of Middlesex University considers that a university has no control over the employment prospects of its graduates (THES, September 19). He will...
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No mobility, no jobs
GEOFFREY Alderman (THES, September 19) provides a neat overview of what is wrong with the league tables employed by the press in his argument for a more rational, transparent and credible system of...
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Confirming prejudices
ANYONE who read Fergus Millar (THES, September 12) should consider the news item on page four ("Research inquiry sparks row"). The head of a quango handpicked by a former minister has invited the...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
ASI understand it, postmodernist ideas make a positive contribution to intellectual life not only for all the reasons tucked away in the final paragraph of Richard Evans's caricature of the subject (...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
WHILE Richard Evans rightly criticises some of the more idiotic pronouncements of the new hyper-relativism, he is surely being unduly belligerent and alarmist in his attitude to postmodernism. Many...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Having recently finished editing a book on child prostitution in Britain, I decided to look at the subject in Marseilles, a French city with a long history of turbulence, on the...
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Why some pleading is special
The issues confronting New Zealand universities continue to come at us thick and fast. We are not only facing an imminent "comprehensive review" - a condition that now seems obligatory for...
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Politics, principles and public relations
Why is everyone so disinclined to bite the bullet on funding further and higher education, and financing its students? Unfortunately, those to whom we might look for long-term solutions - most...
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Lecturers sceptical of training institute
Universities are to be asked to comment next week on options for a national scheme to train lecturers in the art of teaching. The Institute for Learning and Teaching proposed by Sir Ron Dearing to...