Innovation, made in Switzerland
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 Switzerland is one of Europe's top performers in innovation, sharing the all-star bench with the likes of Finland, Sweden, and Germany. However, signs of weaknesses are...
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ITEA 2 Symposium 2006, Paris
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 The ITEA 2 (Information Technology for European Advancement) symposium will take place on 5 and 6 October 2006 in Paris, France. ITEA 2 aims to boost European competitiveness by...
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Today's news
'Stay at home' degrees over the internet Traditional three-year residential honours degrees could be replaced by a more flexible credit-based system, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, said...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"A quarter of university staff plan to leave their current employer in the next year" - survey by The Times Higher, September 5. Finished with The Higher? Won't be a sec. Just checking the details of...
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Leader: Two systems, no easy answers
The concerns over widening participation expressed by Stephen Gorard and Emma Smith have been echoed this month in the US. In both countries, concerted attempts to draw into universities sections of...
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Leader: In search of a yardstick
International comparisons based on academic tests have caused regular furores at school level, with whole national systems changing in response to poor results. Germany was the prime example, where...
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'Staff happy to stay put' shock
I had a good hoot reading your front-page article ("Dissatisfied staff plan exodus", September 8). For several years, when teaching social research methods to management postgraduates, I have used...
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Give refugees a hand
"Don't waste our talents" (Opinion, September 8) is a considerable indictment of the way that academics who flee from regimes such as the Taleban are treated. It is far too common that such academics...
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A further lesson
The need for institutions become more customer-focused might be a new idea for universities, but further education colleges offering higher education courses have struggled with this for years. With...
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Oxford answers back 1
Your article on academic self-governance at UK universities is unfortunate in building its case on an unrecognisable account of reform at Oxford University ("Stronghold of academic rule besieged by...
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Oxford answers back 2
Bernard Crick argues that Oxbridge democracy makes students non-citizens (I assume that he means "citizens" of the university). I hold no brief for Oxbridge, but it is important to note that students...
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Conspiracy foiled
The publisher of A Campus Conspiracy may expect "a lot of speculation about the author's identity" ("'Anon' brings campus to book", September 8), but ten seconds on Google shows that Tesco.com...
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EU free-for-all?
From September 1, all UK and other European Union students will be able to gain admission to British universities free at the point of charge. Only when they graduate, and provided they are earning...
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Who rocks the most? 1
We couldn't believe the omission of Leeds University from your rock 'n' pop roll of honour ("You might not believe it, but that gown is so rock'n'roll", September 8). You've surely heard of the Gang...
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Who rocks the most? 2
A few Goldsmiths names were missing, including John Cale, Rob Da Bank, Simon Hale, Linton Kwesi Johnson and John Illsley (Dire Straits played their first gig when he was at Goldsmiths). This makes us...