Private provision is a bankrupt approach 1
You report a suggestion by Policy Exchange that private, presumably "for profit", providers might take over all or parts of failing universities ("Bankruptcy should be a real option, argues think-...
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John Harper, 1925-2009
John Lander Harper, one of the leading ecologists of the 20th century, has died.He was born on May 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He studied for a first degree in botany at the...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 2
In 1981, for the first time in its history, the University Grants Committee decided that financial cuts should not create "equal misery", but be differentially directed. The major cuts - much greater...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 3
In your article "Bankruptcy should be a real option", Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, states: "Universities in America go bankrupt, which is why the US has the best...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 1
As an Arts and Humanities Research Council award-holder, I would like to comment on Peter Barry's attack on the supposedly overarching managerialisation, governmentalisation and restrictive short-...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 2
Reading your list of field-changing books ("The book everyone wishes they'd written", 23 April), I could not help noticing how many would surely have been denied funding in our climate of "economic...
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Fundamental constraints
In your feature on university governance ("Where power lies", 16 April), David Watson, professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education, quotes from our paper, Keeping Our...
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Scrap academy's funding
Perhaps the simplest solution ("Out-of-touch academy is unfit for grant role, says former fellow", 16 April) would be to take from the British Academy the substantial amount of funding it receives...
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Grant us the grant power
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills should bring the Academy of Social Sciences into the grant-giving process. With 680 individual academicians, 34 learned society members, 90 per...
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Sector norms are bad news
With all Oxbridge colleges in the process of registering with the Charity Commission, the Charities Act is ever before my mind (Letters, 23 April). And I yield to nobody in my anxiety that the Higher...
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Rank and rile
I feel sure that the purpose of your very detailed report on vice-chancellors' pay ("Pay packets of excellence", 19 March) is to provide useful information on a comparative basis. The means you...
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Pedagogic commitment
I was surprised by the solipsistic tone and narrow focus of Lewis Elton's review of Exploring Professionalism, edited by Bryan Cunningham (Books, 16 April). The review hardly does credit to the range...
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Probability theory
In a silly, condescending sort of way, Trevor Stone (Letters, 23 April) tries to tell us how any "right-thinking, honest intellectual" should think about religion. He says that its basic hypothesis...
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From where I sit - The hogwash manifesto
No election in India was ever lost for want of a manifesto. In fact, as a friend put it, many thinking Indians treat manifestos as "hogwash - the wash within which the political hogs bathe themselves...
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