Letter: Game of monopoly (2)
The proposed merger between London Guildhall, North London and East London universities would mean lower-quality "higher education" for London's poorest students ("Giant London merger plan", THES ,...
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Letter: Modernity knocks
What an old-fashioned view of the role of higher education "League Tables 2001" ( THES , May 18) assume. In February last year, about 60 metres from where I sit, education secretary David Blunkett...
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Letter: Creative model
Perhaps one way of overcoming the split in lifelong learning is to be creative about structures ("Split in sector is stifling lifelong learning, warns Niace leader", THES , May 11). The University of...
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Letter: In brief (1)
How new is the new breed of leader (Analysis, THES , May 18)? In your list of 36 new and old v-cs, I noticed not a single female name, nor much to suggest the presence of some non-Anglo-Saxon blood....
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Letter: In brief (2)
Why do I find the idea of publicly funded posts in astrology ("Medieval minister wants Indian students to be taught vedic astrology", THES , May 4) odd when we have publicly funded posts in Christian...
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Letter: In brief (4)
Turkey's ambassador in London (Letters, THES , May 11) is perhaps unaware of my report (see www.gomidas.org ) wherein I narrate the systematic manner in which Turkish archival authorities impeded my...
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Letter: OU's role in expansion
Baroness Blackstone is right to point out that a change in the way Open University students are recorded might confuse readers of the various statistics recently released (Letters, THES , May 18)....
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Letter: In brief (3)
Christopher Wood (Books, THES , May 18) bases much criticism of pop entries in the latest Grove music dictionary on one "inaccuracy": that the word "still " is missing in the title of Carole King's...
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Latest UK news
OU boosts student enrolment Sudents enrolling at the Open University accounted for more than half the growth of undergraduate numbers last year. Undergraduate enrolments were up 2.4 per cent...
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Leadership chair named after Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu, former archbishop of Cape Town, has had a chair in leadership development at the University of Pretoria named after him....
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A team at Edinburgh University has come up with a novel design for a tidal electricity generator. Scientists at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, have developed a ceramic foam that is...
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Blunkett unveils cuddly Labour's education manifesto Secretary of state for education David Blunkett was unveiling Labour’s education manifesto at Southampton University today. Meanwhile, prime...
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Amnesty urges Ethiopia to release academic Amnesty International has called on the Ethiopian government to free academic Mesfin Wolde-Mariam and fellow human rights activist Berhanu Nega, who were...
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Financial Times Labour has pledged to create a university to improve the training and skills of health workers. Fiona Harvey says that Itanium, developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, is the first of...
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Egyptian professor jailed A professor of political sociology at the American University of Cairo has been sentenced to seven years in prison for undermining the dignity of the state and related...