Trends in HE: The rating game
Making your creditworthiness public is common in the US and a few enterprising UK institutions are joining the club. David Jobbins reports In the next few weeks, two more UK universities will join a...
Making your creditworthiness public is common in the US and a few enterprising UK institutions are joining the club. David Jobbins reports In the next few weeks, two more UK universities will join a...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by the man who first spoke of "the stream of consciousness": "It is with no small amount of...
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It Must Be Beautiful
If Chester College gains degree-awarding powers, it will become a full university in five years not by 2005 ("Chester hopes merger will bring new status", THES , August 30). Tom Lawrence Wirral,...
Much of the debate about the Enron debacle and its implications for the accounting profession has focused on the differences in corporate governance structures and financial reporting conventions...
The new Quality Assurance Agency handbook expects audit teams to read all external examiners' reports for higher education institutions. What quality of report can they expect? If QAA auditors find...
Sir Alec Broers claims that Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have more restrictive intellectual property policies than the policy he proposes for Cambridge University ("...
MIT's policies are more liberal, not more restrictive, as Sir Alec Broers states. Intellectual property associated with independent research lies with the inventor or author, not with MIT. The...
Sir Alec Broers describes three reactions to the proposed changes to intellectual property rights policy at Cambridge. I oppose this change but fall into none of Sir Alec's categories. I have no...