Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future
A sprawling system needs more democracy and opportunities for graduates, Nayanjot Lahiri writes
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LITERATURE- Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, MerrillBy Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter university professor, Harvard University. Princeton University Press, £13.95. ISBN...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 1
Times Higher Education's list of vice-chancellors' pay and benefits ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April) makes for depressing reading, coming as it does in the same issue as Iain Pears'...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 2
Writing as both a taxpayer and a parent of a student, I'm infuriated by the way vice-chancellors have tailgated on to the inflated salaries paid in the private sector. This greed has done much to...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 3
In the 1960s, university vice-chancellors were paid 30 per cent more than the professors in charge of departments. Today, if a vice-chancellor's salary is three times that of the top professors on...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 4
While the numbers in the average salary tables published last week may well be accurate, the information content of the tables is low, if not zero.Having first discarded the distortions for London...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 5
Among the important points made by Iain Pears in "Universities are not businesses" is the connection between the recent managerial emphasis on "strategic vision" (which includes approved "research...
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End the oppression
Bullying is widespread throughout the workplace, and includes the harassment and victimisation of whistleblowers or those who raise grievances. It is a particularly serious problem in higher...
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Talk is cheap
I doubt David Lammy and Diana Johnson could put forward a coherent argument for the importance of foreign language learning in relation to business competitiveness: the UK's main non-European trading...
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Moving to a new beat
Your article "Now what have we here?" (1 April), which sets out the National Policing Improvement Agency's strategy for increasing the use of new technologies and social science research in...
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Frank apology
Last week's THE covered a conference debate on critical theory and education in which I am reported to have made a direct and general comparison between the situation of Anne Frank and today's...
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Jack Pole, 1922-2010
A British expert on American history who was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic has died.Jack Pole was born in London on 14 March 1922 and attended a progressive school in Hampstead.After...
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Any old irony
"The time has come to root out this new challenge." This was the no-nonsense declaration from Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, as he inaugurated the newly formed Irony Sub-Committee...
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From where I sit: Professor Dolittle's tyranny
I recently came across an astounding German book, Professor Untat (2007), by Uwe Kamenz, a professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Martin Werle, a management consultant...
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