Universities as a focus for dissent
Scott Wilson's lively review of Alan Sinfield's Cultural Politics - Queer Reading, in last week's THES raises a fundamental question about the role of the university. Wilson questions Sinfield's...
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NVQ peril for professions
Peter Smith points to structural and ethical damage from the vocation vision. Within the construction professions most have heard of National Vocational Qualifications; few realise their implications...
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Academic bias in skills studies
There is an overwhelming temptation to judge the ability of all young people on the basis of "academic" skills. Your report in News in Brief (THES, February 10) reports that "vocational students were...
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Character reference in Chinese reforms
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
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Bare necessities in art and life
Clearly, the rot has gone very far: a female academic, Maire Ni Bhrolchain, objects to, and is instrumental in the removal of, paintings from a university "workplace" - ie a conference room - on the...
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Time the cavalry rode to the rescue
Higher education should take the new Department for Employment consultative paper, A Vision for Higher Level Vocational Qualifications seriously. This will not be easy. The much-postponed publication...
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The future of science in a vacuum
In last week's THES the Science Minister, David Hunt, referred to British scientists' "unrivalled contribution to scientific knowledge and understanding". We still have, he said, "world-class...
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Minister promises grant increase
Germany is to increase federal grants for students this year, the new federal education and research minister, Christian Democrat Jurgen Ruttgers, confirmed. Presenting his priority areas in Bonn, Mr...
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Student leader murdered
The leader of one of Algeria's main student unions was murdered in Algiers last week by suspected Islamic fundamentalists. Abdelhafid Said, who was president of the General Union of Students, became...
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Clinton casualty stokes legal row
Lani Guinier, the law professor who caused a furore in Washington when President Clinton nominated her for the job of assistant attorney general for civil rights, is creating new controversy where...
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Sex-net student is gaoled
Anyone tempted to pour out their sexual fantasies into the Internet global computer network should beware. They may find themselves investigated, arrested and charged by the FBI. That is what...
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Subjective judgement in the ranks
Academic league tables in Russia have proved too hot for the state to handle, Nick Holdsworth reports. University league tables in Russia have proven to be as hot a political potato for ministry...
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Academics call for cuts in `quality'
A deep split has emerged between ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice chancellors and the nation's academics over the future of the federal government's Aus$80 million (Pounds 40 million) quality assurance scheme. The...
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Disoriented
(Photograph) - Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. Disoriented: the case of `hybrid' orangutans has raised fundamental...
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Boys and girls come out to play
Children's Childhoods Observed and Experienced