The landscapesof tyranny
Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini used art to cement their power, reports. An immense building project is underway in Moscow to recreate Russia's largest church. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 30...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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Real national product
Nations differ in the way in which they organise research and development and in the way they prepare innovations for the market. Germany has long been renowned for the strength of its basic research...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...
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Stereotype in mono
My colleagues and I appreciate the spirit of your cartoon (THES, October 20) depicting the management of this university. However, now that there are six women vice chancellors perhaps your...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your front page headline "Call for Central Control" and your main leader (THES, October 20) deal unfairly with the arguments in the report Higher Education in a Learning Society, which has six...
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Tesco, ergo sum
Richard A. Burridge argues that a crisis of value in higher education is shortchanging students and society. The academy in ancient Athens was at the edge of the agora so that its deliberations about...
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Haggling in the marketplace
The animal spirits of education entrepreneurs have rewarded Iona Burchell with two degrees, debt and no job I noticed a job advertisement the other day in a local paper which proudly proclaimed that...
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Euro-wide paralysis
Across Europe governments - and oppositions - are in trouble over the political and economic implications of the rapid transition to mass higher education. In just a few years aspirations have turned...
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Medical deans defy call to cut intake
Australia's deans of medicine are defying the federal government and refusing to cut student intakes. More than 1,500 new doctors are due to start work over the next 12 months. About 1,200 will...
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Oxbridge exaggerates the gender gap
Gillian Sutherland's observations on the alleged "gender deficit" (THES, October 13) contain many justified criticisms of assessment practices in universities. However, the premise that "girls...
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Opposition to opt-out goes beyond politics
I note (THES, October 20) that Ann Risman, principal of Richmond Adult and Community College, has dismissed opposition to her opt-out plans as "politically motivated". Referring to my resignation...
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Privates on parade
Private colleges in Malaysia will have to show that their courses meet national needs as one of five new conditions imposed by the education ministry, before it approves licences for new courses or...
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Satire strikes unfunny chord
Germany's overcrowded and bureaucratic university system has provoked one professor into a rather un-German line of attack - satire. Dietrich Schwanitz, professor of English studies at the University...