Not by the numbers
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' reluctance to accept a numerical approach to quality assurance ("Quality plan stalls as QAA faces dissent", THES, September 17) is to be applauded....
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Which Warwick?
Which Diana Warwick were you reporting on last week ("Populist Labour swells HE ranks", THES, October 1) in raptures over the prime minister's announcement of another expansion of higher education...
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Cold war front
I read Christopher Andrew's piece ("Degrees of treachery", THES, September 24) with interest but not surprise. I attended the von Humboldt University in East Berlin for a month in spring 1987. My...
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Double RAE ratings
The improved consultation and transparency that accompany the forthcoming research assessment exercise are more than welcome. The consultation highlights a major problem, however. It seems that the...
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Swansea brought low
Gerald Stockdale was forced to resign as principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education two years ago after the National Audit Office criticised the manner in which the institute ran overseas...
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'Trial' and errors
In continuing to defend the indefensible (Letters, THES, October 1), Graham Zellick once again reveals his contempt for independence and natural justice. Anyone who considers the Archbishop of...
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Taking from Peter to pay PRP
Natalie Fenton's article ("Women - don't buy this line", THES, October 1) will have started alarm bells ringing for many women staff. The introduction of performance-related pay could only further...
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Taking from Peter to pay PRP
As Natalie Fenton says, the introduction of PRP would exacerbate the serious discrimination against women over pay most recently revealed by the Bett report. But the Bett report itself recommends...
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Taking from Peter to pay PRP
The experience of trade unions in other parts of the public sector confirms Natalie Fenton's analysis of the impact of PRP for academic and related staff in our universities. According to the...
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Le mot injuste
Reading Austin Mitchell's letter ("Course is called to account", THES, September 17), I was surprised to see an MP write: "Under the deal with Oxford Brookes University, anyone studying for...
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Youth wing call to cut the strings of labour `puppets'
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Many undergraduates have lost confidence in the leadership of the National Union of Students because they see it as merely...
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Partners give cash for life
Scotland's finance minister Jack McConnell this week claimed there would be Pounds 29 million of new money for lifelong learning over the next three years under the Labour-Liberal Democrat...
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Stipend rise boost PhD applications
The number of graduates signing up for doctorates in physics and engineering has risen for the first time in three years, probably in response to last year's Pounds 1,000 increase in the value of the...
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Graduate earnings rise fee question
Higher education expansion over the past ten to 15 years appears to be working - at least in labour market terms. Earnings of graduates, relative to those with only A levels, retained their premium...
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School ask for clearer points system
Universities must make clear how they view candidates with a wide range of entry qualifications compared with those with a narrow range of top-grade A levels, according to the responses to a...