Prescription for progress
One would expect the professions to be able to justify their services by showing that clients benefit from them. In fact, all professions resist gathering the necessary evidence. Progress towards...
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Portsmouth far from shipshape
As the person who represented Mrs Tall in her claim for constructive dismissal against the University of Portsmouth, I would like to take issue with Mike Bateman and the "facts" he disclosed in his...
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Assessors must blow their cover
As HEFCE's first assessment is published Geoffrey Alderman (below) argues that stage two is shrouded in secrecy and Ian Howarth (right) suggests an alternative. Whatever else may be said about the...
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Students topple director
(Photograph) - The dismissal of Romania's director general of higher education marked an important victory for students in the second week of a general strike over the introduction of university fees...
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Crumbling buildings need Pounds 500m
France's university presidents have warned the government that its decision to hold consultations on the future of higher education must not lead to the shelving of urgent problems. Two issues which...
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Knowing Fliess from Fleischl
Stuart Sutherland's review of my Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, (THES, October 20) confuses Ernst Fleischl with Wilhem Fliess, dismisses by magisterial assertion a complex...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Inglis decries the loss of writing that seems to come from the heart, that touches the soul of the people, that is informed by experience. He acknowledges that this was an almost wholly male...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Fred Inglis relies upon nostalgic reminiscence rather than intelligent analysis. His argument neglects two important points. First, the intellectual and political conditions in which academic work is...
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Lecturers want independent body
Mr Rouse (THES, Letters October 20) correctly points out the difficulties caused to education authorities, schools and teachers by the unwillingness of the Government to fund last year's award by the...
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Universal truth
Richard Burridge claims that "the universities have preserved human culture through the dark ages" (THES, October ). The dark ages are usually taken to refer to the two or three centuries following...
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Private benefits for graduates
In arguing for "free tuition for the first degree . . . as a basic entitlement" my colleague, Brian Roper (THES, October ) ignores an aspect of higher education which ought to be fundamental to...
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Wrong move for probation training
The Home Office's decision to remove probation training from higher education is indeed a regrettable one (THES, October 6). It cannot but have the effect of diminishing the status and influence of...
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Planetary motions
If the question of the values that should govern institutions is complex, questions about the values that might inform the intellectual debate within academic space are at least as knotty. The tangle...
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Saving space
The president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, in her lecture "The Academic Space: New Frontier or Black Hole" given last week in London, made an impassioned plea for the defence of what she called "...
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Quality survey finds common ground
How does a law student at the university of Oporto in Portugal know that their university is as keen to ensure the quality of their degree as a student at the university of Utrecht in the Netherlands...