The pros and cons of intervention
Sir Stephen Tumim's departure from St Edmund Hall in Oxford is more Tom Sharpe novel than Harvard business school case study, but it is nonetheless an unwelcome distraction to those in the university...
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Two sectors, one voice
UNIVERSITIES are a great industry whose product is crucial to the economic, cultural and social survival of the nation. Yet that industry has more problems than ever before. External authority...
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Imperial plans a get-together
Banks do it, television companies have mostly done it already, car manufacturers do it with enthusiasm: and now higher education is doing it in bulk. As we show on page 6, mergers are in fashion, but...
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How spending review can be a win/win situation
Higher education must cite Dearing in its case for extra money instead of falling for the divide-and-rule trick, says Leslie Wagner The outcome of the comprehensive spending review does not look too...
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Video must not kill the lecture
Jim Stevenson urges caution on filming high-quality lectures and distributing them widely. He says a series on the dos and don'ts of lecturing would be better SOME years ago a colleague at the...
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Don's Diary
Monday Start gentle. Coffee with a colleague who is on sabbatical, discussing a nagging question: can there really be an evolutionary psychology? These days, many of us psychologists are keen to sign...
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How Brits can bridge the Gulf
IT IS BOOM time in the Gulf and it is not because of oil. Higher education is growing rapidly. The rise in numbers of students in Dubai alone from the early 1970s to 1996 has been 766 per cent (40,...
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Smart colleges will act now to reform governing bodies
WE ALL remember the theory that inspired public sector reform. The notion was that if the spenders of public cash were governed by business people, selected for office rather than elected to it, the...
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Appointments
University of Reading The following have been appointed pro vice-chancellors from October 1: Michael Fulford, professor in the department of archaeology, dean of the faculty of letters and social...
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Promotions
Lancaster University The following senior lecturers have been promoted to readerships: Margaret Ives, German studies; Les Smith, psychology and epistemology of development; David Smith, Indian...
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Chairs
Wellcome Trust Valerie Smith, marine microbiologist and reader in the school of environmental and evolutionary biology at the University of St Andrews, has been awarded a Wellcome visiting...
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Europe ignores patent data at its peril
European companies throw away Pounds 20 billion a year by duplicating research and development that has already been patented, sometimes by the same firm. Trevor Lemon, assistant director of research...
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Peers girded for fees battle
PEERS may be prepared to fight the government all the way on Scottish university tuition fees, possibly delaying the implementation of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. In what would be a rare...
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German houses split over reform
Germany's ruling coalition has forced higher education reforms through the federal parliament in the face of Social Democrats' opposition in the upper house. The SPD will now fight the Higher...
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R&D investment falls behind
British company investment in research and development is falling further behind international competitors despite a 5 per cent rise last year in top firms' investment. The 1998 United Kingdom R&...