Drum up cash or hit case
The Labour party's shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown, has caused some ructions in his party by proposing to remove automatic entitlement to child benefit from 16 to 19-year-olds so that the Pounds 700...
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Testing times on credibility
The Higher Education Quality Council wants to be the core of the independent quality assurance agency now on the drawing board. If it is to do so, it must produce reports on institutions which are...
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Stub this bad idea out now
A fracas is developing at the University of Cambridge over plans to accept tobacco industry money to found a new chair. The University of Cambridge is considering a proposal to accept a donation of...
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Brand versus the pc bullies
The issue, (The colour of intelligence, THES, April 26) as Hans Eysenck observes, is one of free speech, the rest is politically-correct bullying. I should also point out that Mr Brand lives in Great...
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Labour lost in Arden takeover
Jonathan Bate ("Much ado", THES, May 3) worries about the future of the Arden Shakespeare after the International Thomson takeover of Routledge. He would have done much better to have worried earlier...
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Place your bets in sum wager
So Chris Ormell thinks he has a proof of the Fermat Theorem (Don's Diary, THES, April 26) and is prepared to offer Pounds 100 to anyone who finds a mistake. Well, I have not got time to find his...
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Customers come first on campus
If Ross Brennan (THES, May 3) wanted to set the adrenalin in motion on a bitterly cold Friday morning, he succeeded. What is more, he was right in what he said about teachers, nurses, the police and...
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True cost of academic life
Congratulations to my former colleague Tom Wilson for pointing out the facts of academic life regarding workloads and material rewards (Letters, THES, April 19). But why did he, like most others,...
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The Italian job: there's no material difference
If indeed the language department of the University of Bergamo is as bad as Richard Davies describes it, why should he have chosen to go there ("Academia as Roman holiday", THES, April 26)? Surely...
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The Italian job: there's no material difference
I share many of Richard Davies's criticisms. However, his article is full of generalisations and misconceptions. Having studied and worked in both Italian and English universities I have come to...
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Marks of grade inflation
If the likely degree grade has, indeed, risen over the past 20 years (Colin Lawson, THES, April 19) there are two factors which may have influenced this change. In many higher education institutions...
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Patents is a virtue
Universities must make the most of their innovative ideas in science and technology to secure wealth for the nation, argues Ian Taylor British science is world class and builds on a tradition of...
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Training for the temps
Of course one shares with the Association of University Teachers some alarm that less than one third of "lecturer stand-ins" have received any training (THES, May 3). But how does this compare with...
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Funding turns on completion not pass
Len Arthur (THES, May 3) expresses concern regarding the method by which the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is to fund part-time provision from next year onwards; in particular that...
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Happy birthday to us SAUL
A twentieth birthday party! Not for a beloved child - although it felt like it - but for a pension scheme called SAUL (Superannuation Arrangements for the University of London). It happened last week...