Letter: Private grillings (2)
It was reported that "there are no systematic training schemes for supervisors outside a handful of isolated and unconnected skills workshops" ("New PhD to attract overseas students", THES , April 13...
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Letter: 'Not really dead'
The 19th century could be a time of horror to an informed person ("Plight of the living dead", THES, April 20). Hans Christian Andersen, for example, lived in constant fear of airborne diseases that...
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Letter: Heated facts
Mike Hulme is right to stress that responsibility for implementing the Kyoto protocol falls to each and every one of us (Letters, THES , April 20). Governments and their policies, however, shape the...
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Letter: Imperial clarity (1)
Imperial College has no intention of charging students fees in addition to those levied by government ("Doctor quits Imperial over fees", THES , April 20). The charging of top-up fees is illegal. We...
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Letter: Imperial clarity (2)
You made a lively piece out of Imperial College's application for degree-awarding powers ("Imperial bids for degrees", THES , April 20) but the reality is more prosaic. It is University of London...
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Letter: Cull of languages lacked logic
You quote a spokesman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England as doubting that universities would agree to regional planning of subject provision because they were autonomous ("Lecturers...
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Leader: Missing jam for doughnut-style university world
Abolishing tenure was supposed to make British universities more likely to give people permanent jobs because it would be easier to make staff redundant in hard times. It did not work out that way....
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Latest international news
Police halt Venezuelan protest Police have broken up violent protests at the Universidad Central de Venezuela after armed students blocked a session of the university parliament. The students were...
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Latest UK news
Cambridge reviews management structure Cambridge University is facing a management shake-up. Dons will next week debate the appointment of two more pro vice-chancellors, an enhanced executive role...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Patti Waldmeir argues that a limited abuse of copyright can be a spur to scholarship, innovation and democracy. Hank McKinnell, chief executive of Pfizer, argues that cheaper drugs...
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Latest international news
Victory for downgraded dons Twenty-one foreign-language lecturers at the University of Verona who were downgraded to technical staff following a change in Italian law in 1995 have had their status...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph The government should stop attacking elite universities for failing to recruit more state pupils and focus instead on the failings of comprehensive education, says Anthony Smith,...
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Oxford and Princeton form research alliance Oxford and Princeton universities have announced collaboration on research and student exchanges, giving both access to new funding bodies and a...
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Imperial awaits sentence for GMO breach Imperial College was today awaiting sentence after it admitted breaching health and safety legislation regulating the use of genetically modified organisms. At...
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Latest international news
Ethiopian campus reopens after riots The University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia reopened today after last week’s disturbances in which 40 people died. Student demands for police to leave the...