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Laurie Taylor column
Universities are employing more and more of their own undergraduates for cleaning and catering jobs - THES September 21 Next please. Move your tray along. Ah yes. What's on the menu today? There's...
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Leader: High time for a look at control of academic life
Few things in public life are more panic-inducing than the arrival of the Whitehall investigators. But the inquiry into universities planned by the Cabinet Office's Better Regulation Task Force is an...
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Letter: Debt-free collection
Charging a market interest rate on student loans could apparently raise £400 million to reduce student poverty ("Market-rate loans proposed", THES , September 21). But who would contribute the...
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Letter: Take time on mergers
Sir David Watson's discussion paper presented to the vice-chancellors using data accrued by Brian Ramsden (Analysis, THES , September 7) may aim to change the shape of higher education, but those...
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Letter: Pragmatic placement
I wish to add my reservations about the effect of constraints on student placement in the Quality Assurance Agency's proposed new code of practice ("QAA issues rules for placement", THES, August 17...
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Letter: Don't separate skills
Skills? Yes, indeed. Students need skills and, at the conclusion of their courses, they should know what skills they have acquired ("How to put first-years on the right track", THES , September 7)....
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Latest news
Lib Dems back student grants Liberal Democrats today called on the government to abolish student tuition fees and restore maintenance grants. The motion was passed at the party’s conference in...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Deflecting an asteroid approaching Earth could be more complex than just blowing it up, research suggests. Scientists at Hammersmith Hospital in London have found that Viagra ...
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From today's UK papers
The Times A detailed history of the earliest humans to live in Britain is to be written in a £1.2 million study that will shed new light on the origins of modern man. The Ancient Human...
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Latest UK news
V-cs back Welsh bid to re-introduce grants Welsh vice-chancellors are backing proposals for the Welsh Assembly to seek legislative powers to introduce maintenance grants and bursaries for students....
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Latest international news
Colombian politician kidnapped Consuelo Araujo, a former Colombian culture minister, was yesterday kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces leftist guerrilla group near Valledupar in the...
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US attacks: your views
Nitrous oxide... and the shadows cast by cowards Dale Lowdermilk [ Dale93150@aol.com ] Saturday 22 September 2001 04:19 BST Would a gun in the cockpit have saved 5 lives....10 lives....5,...
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Latest international news
Brazilian lecturers' strike affects 30,000 students More than 30,000 applicants for places at Brazil's federal universities have had their entrance examinations cancelled as a result of an all-out...
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Latest UK news
Idealism dead in universities, says Lib Dem MP Liberal Democrat higher education spokesman David Rendel has bemoaned the loss of idealism in universities as they struggle with the pressures of...