Will the dinosaurs survive the asteroid?
Is "the university" defunct or is it poised to become the main driver of the global economy in a "knowledge century"? Millennial angst is breaking out all over. This week, a self-selected group of "...
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Two sides of A4 will not do the trick
THE Quality Assurance Agency's Agenda for Quality runs counter to irreversible trends in British higher education. Growing criticism, notably from the Russell and '94 groups of universities, has...
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The outside world fails to get a look in
British universities are not meeting the challenge of a fast-changing world - an issue which Dearing failed adequately to address, says Fred Halliday IT IS NOT easy, in the debate on British...
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How fearless five took entrepreneurial path
A growing number of universities sense the need to change their traditional character. Burton Clark explains. IN TRADITIONAL European settings entrepreneurial universities are places that boldly seek...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
It is difficult to reconcile your coverage of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals's activities (THES, May 15) with reality. Despite suggestions to the contrary from your anonymous sources,...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Vice-chancellors hold strong views and express them vigorously. They are, after all, academics; they feel passionately about higher education and preserving its quality. But your reporters should not...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
As a vice-chairman of the CVCP I do not believe your coverage is representative of the view of the majority of members. You cite a small number of unnamed vice-chancellors expressing personal views....
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
When there was talk of a convergence of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics and the CVCP, I, as the CDP's public affairs director, was interviewed by the consultants producing a feasibility...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Tony Tysome's article "Cracks appear over QAA" (THES, May 15) has interpreted the CVCP's position statement as supporting a system of registered external examiners to review quality. This is not the...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Your editorial of April 17, 1998 about the approach of the QAA states that "there is little evidence that the academic community at large shares Sir Stewart Sutherland's anger at what is being done...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
The consultation period for the structure, priorities and organisation of the Institute of Learning and Teaching is proving very useful, including, as it does, the airing of differing views and...
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Gordon's dilemma
Chancellor Gordon Brown is again concerned about pay outstripping productivity ... what on earth will he do? He should "name and shame" the companies, sectors and company directors who are "over-...
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Laddismo foot on the clutch
DURING a seminar on transport and society in 1993 three of my students worked out a project that had us hastening two kilometres across town to a pub called the Graf Eberhard, named after the 15th-...
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Embryo from two seeds of thought
FOR TONY BLAIR, whose political instincts are inclusive and unsectarian, it is risky to attempt the inherently divisive project of designing an ideology under the rubric of "the third way" between...
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Don's Diary
Monday This is going to be a good week. I have to go into the university only once and have four whole days at home to work. Bliss. Of course, before I do any real work there is some marking, letters...