No end in sight for York strike
A faculty strike at one of Canada's largest universities has gone on for more than five weeks and an end to it seems far off now that the administration has rejected binding arbitration. Full-time...
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You're 404, Baldwin, get a phat guide
Contemplating a college exchange programme in the United States? As in all foreign travel, it is handy to have a phrase book for the local lingo. But Berlitz guides are of limited help. Da Bomb! Dis...
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All Cliffs shifted off shelves
Prodded by a faculty petition, Villanova University in Pennsylvania has banned the sale of Cliffs Notes, popular digests of literary classics critics say are used by students to avoid reading the...
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Think big and move for more mergers
Why are there so many universities in the United Kingdom? By this question I do not mean to imply that there are too many students, as some commentators claim. On the contrary, I have argued for some...
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Tale of two colleges and a new broom
Here is a tale of two colleges in one city. Last week the Teacher Training Agency in effect closed La Sainte Union College in Southampton by withdrawing accreditation from courses that account for...
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Green dawn of a Swampy age
One thing we can say with confidence about yesterday's election is that the electorate will have put in power a government whose policies on the environment are inadequate. British academic experts...
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The skills that fail to travel
University teachers have been urged and may soon be ordered to inculcate in students 'core', 'key' and 'transferable' skills. But, asks Terry Hyland, what do these worn words mean without a specific...
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Golden age of the don is not entirely a relic
The pay may be static, but the holidays are long, redundancies are rare and extra-curricular activities plentiful. So what do academics have to complain about? Vincenzo Raimo casts an outsider's eye...
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A joint body of work
Jonathan Sawday ("Livid and the dead", THES, April 18), did not go far enough in highlighting the plight of art and science. The human body has often been seen as a tool from which to learn. Dead or...
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Our escape from Colditz
Richard Cockett ("Please don't mention the war", THES, April 25) handles good evidence superficially and comes to some unjustifiably simplistic and alarmist conclusions. One of his arguments, the...
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Research: is it essential?
A genuine debate is slowly emerging about the relationship between teaching and research in higher education (THES, April 18). It was interesting to compare the thoughts of Alan Jenkins in his...
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Research: is it essential?
Philip Cerny says it is not necessary to do research to be a good teacher nor is it necessary for those who want to be a teacher to work in a secondary school, even if it does allow you to take...
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LSU is victim of a 'gross injustice'
The decision of the Teacher Training Agency to withdraw Initial Teacher Training accreditation from La Sainte Union College (THES, April 25) is a gross injustice that reflects unfairly on the...
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Mistaken identity
Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...
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Bespoke tuition for today's new readers
UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...