Trends in HE: Status: more than just a name
As new universities celebrate their tenth birthday, John Pratt mourns the loss of the genuinely innovative polytechnics It is ten years since former polytechnics became universities, but any...
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Trends in HE: Pioneers of urban frontier find kinship close to home
A sense of unity will enable new-generation universities to be loud and proud, says Janice Reid Around the world, new universities are feeling the challenges of a changing global economy and...
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Trends in HE: The big picture: charting the changes facing UK higher education
Please see Higher education trends 2002 in the Statistics section for charts and tables giving a comprehensive picture of Britain's higher education system and its evolution over two...
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It's bigger, better and buzzing
That's what the former head of Umist's school of management says of Manchester's mooted 'superuniversity'. Mandy Garner reports Dale Littler doesn't like authority. An academic in the old style (...
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Boycott only opponents of freedom
Nelson Mandela's solidarity with a Palestinian 'terrorist' provokes comparison between the Israeli government and the apartheid regime. John Higgins argues that South Africa's past also teaches that...
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Collaborate don't isolate
Any contact between Israeli and Palestinian academics furthers the peace process - and boycotts can only impede this, scholars told Chris Bunting In October 2000, as they watched news coverage of the...
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Would aliens send us their soap operas?
Are we unique, or is there life elsewhere in the universe? Geoff Watts surveys the scientific thinking Definitive evidence of life on Mars. That was the confident claim made in early 2001 by Imre...
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It's worth another visit to our next-door neighbour to look for signs of life
Are we unique, or is there life elsewhere in the universe? Colin Pillinger considers Martian puzzles No one knows whether there is life on other planets, but new information gleaned from Martian...
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Your credit welcomed here
The idea of universally recognised course credits and joint degrees across Europe is on its way to becoming reality. Harriet Swain reports Funky guides designed to help students choose from the UK's...
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How I stripped away postdoc depression
Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...
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Still riding the crest of every wave
Like the rest of Britain, careers agency the Central Services Unit has moved on in 30 years. Mike Hill reports When the Central Services Unit came into being on August 1 1972, created by the then...
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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...
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In brief 3
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,...
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Enron teaches an ethics lesson
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...
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Monkey business
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...