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It seems that the copyright case reported by your Hong Kong correspondent, Susie Weldon, is not going to end with the published "confidential report" by the Committee on Personnel Matters. As much as...
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Defining best terms in teaching
It is not the timing of semesters that is wrong (Letters, THES February 17), it is their very existence. Those familiar with teaching and learning in higher education know that it is conducive to...
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Bare necessities in art and life
While I have no wish to extend the saga of Southampton University's Naughty Pictures beyond its natural life, there are two or three points made by Ms Ni Bhrolchain in last week's THES ("Why No Nudes...
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Codes and caveats for governing class
Barely two months old, this year is already proving to be quite a year for governors. The past few weeks have seen four significant publications - two from the National Audit Office on financial...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. The heavy snow ten days ago broke dozens of branches off the trees, especially the poplars and ashes, so most of the day gets spent on amateur tree surgery. The bonfire has lasted two days so...
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The serious business of yoga
Students at an international business school in Spain are to be guinea pigs for an academic's theory that yoga and meditation make for better business decisions. Ashok Ranchhod, a principal lecturer...
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Shoot-out at outlaw university
One dead, at least 20 seriously injured, several beaten and an unspecified number of arrests made up the initial casualty list from the opening of the academic year at the outlawed University of...
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Rome director gaoled
The administrative director of Rome's La Sapienza University, Savino Strippoli, was sentenced last week to 22 months in prison for corruption in assigning building and maintenance contracts. A member...
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Computerised exams on the button
Further to your article, "Results at the press of a button", by Olga Wojtas (THES, January ). I am writing to inform you that the University of Luton was, in fact, one of the first universities to...
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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...