Access winners deserve big prizes
The moves by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to use its full financial muscle to encourage wider access are proof that the new parliament's inquiry into fees is not causing planning...
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Universities can shape a framework for Europe
European education ministers wish universities to lead the movement towards a system of collaboration. Kenneth Edwards considers a great opportunity Last month's signing of the Bologna declaration by...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
Vice-chancellors' concerns about Diana Warwick's elevation to become a working Labour peer are quite right ("Warwick peerage splits CVCP", THES, July 9). There is a conflict of interest and no matter...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
Graham Zellick's argument (Soapbox, THES, July 9) seems based on two misrepresentations. Diana Warwick will speak and act in the Lords in her personal capacity and not on behalf of the CVCP. There is...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
I was amused by one of Graham Zellick's reasons for resigning from the CVCP over the Diana Warwick affair: "We were not consulted and senior people such as vice-chancellors do not take kindly to such...
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A question of faith
The article on radical orthodoxy gives a misleading impression of the movement ("Angels in dirty places", THES, July 2). First, it is true we ascribe to a Credal orthodoxy. At the same time, we...
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A question of faith
The low intellectual level of the trendy movement called radical orthodoxy is evinced in the quoted statement of Graham Ward, one of its leaders, that the "positivist view of materiality" held by...
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When the exams fail
In "How to help students who fail exams" (Teaching, THES, July 9) one important factor was overlooked - failures due to faults with examinations. Although examiners are usually subject experts, few...
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Complaints procedure
Your publication of an extract from my recent letter to the Quality Assurance Agency in the story "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2) failed to bring out that I welcomed the QAA draft as...
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Durham lodges
Following the reference to Durham University in the context of freemasons (Letters, THES, July 2), could I make a couple of points? Two masonic lodges with "Durham University" in their titles were...
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Disabled by the system
The issue of access and access funds to university for mature and disabled students is very relevant to the series of articles you are running ("Living on borrowed time", THES, July 9), as is funding...
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If you miss this one...
My advice "book a passage to Zambia" (Star turn, THES, July 9) was in response to the question "if it's cloudy in Cornwall, when is the next chance to see a total solar eclipse?" and my answer...
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Prague
The law faculty at Charles University has filed a criminal complaint after the discovery that papers for last month's exams were on offer before the test for Kr100,000 (Pounds 1,800) complete with...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES & FOOD Animal Health and...