First things first
The story "V-c's plea for firsts" (THES, June 30) implies I urged our external examiners to award more high grades to our students. This is completely untrue. Our externals need no advice from me: it...
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Pay powder keg
Local financial mismanagement and government underfunding are gradually turning the screw on staff in higher education. If the vice tightens any more, there will undoubtedly be an explosion. At this...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
If, on average, graduates pay more tax than non-graduates, then they are contributing to their education. If graduates earn the same or less than non-graduates, only then have they been subsidised,...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway et al have too rosy a view of "socially inclusive" Harvard charging high fees to the rich with big scholarship discounts for the needy. Elite American universities recruit fewer...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
Asking students to shell out thousands of pounds for their degrees is foolhardy and inequitable. The Greenaway report rightly acknowledges that higher education is in the grip of a funding crisis,...
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Rabat
Graduate students have demonstrated against the Moroccan government's inability to ensure employment. Many complained that they have been denied employment with multinational companies, which instead...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
Although expected, the government's humiliation of the Russell Group left the sector embarrassed. Mercifully, the mainstream media did not pick up on the additionally embarrassing news that the group...
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Some quality fudge
The Quality Assurance Agency's latest on the Oxbridge MA (Question 12 in Annex 1 of the National Qualifications Framework) is beyond belief. One of its main aims should surely be the discouragement...
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Worthless Ofsted
Ofsted chief Chris Woodhead, has told college principals that "we must have an inspection process that comes to some judgements we can stand up about whether students in your college are making the...
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All-inclusive intellectual myth
Evolutionary psychology is 'mistaken and pernicious' argue Hilary and Steven Rose. Over the past few years the theory of "evolutionary psychology" has entered the cultural drinking water in both the...
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Foreign bodies elude recruiters
British institutions have a recruitment mountain to climb if they are to hit targets for overseas students set last year by prime minister Tony Blair. The campaign will fail unless universities "...
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Scotland offers warm welcome
Comfortable rooms and friendly academics are as important as teaching quality in attracting overseas students, according to Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, writes Olga...
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Day part-timers dominate FE
The largest grouping of Scottish further education students attends college part time during the day. The second largest group attends during the evening and weekends only. The 1999 figures are from...
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Council chief lands top job in LSC quango
A local government leader who once tried to pay his staff in supermarket vouchers has been appointed chief executive of the Pounds 6 billion education and training superquango, the Learning and...