Race quota battles deter minorities
The numbers of minority students applying to state colleges in Texas and California have dropped sharply in the wake of bitter political and legal battles over affirmative action. Some high- school...
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Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund civil rights suit against University of California
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a civil rights suit against the University of California, claiming that its new "colour-blind" admissions policies is discriminating...
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Streets echo to student jeers
Thousands of chanting university students took to the streets of state capitals across Australia in a national day of action against government policies in general, and proposals for a youth...
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V-c informers aid secret police
Nigerian lecturers who failed to return to work after a seven-month strike are under surveillance from the dreaded State Security Service after being reported to the military authorities by their...
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Lucy's anxiety for family
Academics answer racism. French lecturers are challenging the prejudice that makes scapegoats of immigrants Lucy is a Congolese student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)...
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Academics answer racism
French lecturers are challenging the prejudice that makes scapegoats of immigrants Immigration has become a focal point of study and concern in French academia over recent months as National Front...
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Paperback righter
Not so long ago British academics looked disparagingly at their North American colleagues because of the yoke which ap-peared to constrain their academic lives - that of "publish or perish". That...
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Choices on election day and afterwards
Academic staff will vote overwhelmingly for a Labour Government according to the ICM poll commissioned by The THES. This intention does not, however, seem to be coupled with a vision of increased...
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A time for radical options
People in higher education may feel hard done by. Those in further education may wonder what they are complaining about. As last aut-umn's budget works its way through to detailed allocations to...
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Which road for (new) Scotland?
David Bleiman praises the virtues of a buffer zone which allows universities to make their own decisions In 1993 the Conservative government devolved Scottish higher education, with funding provided...
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Which road for (new) Scotland?
Under a Scottish parliament academic freedom must be protected but institutional autonomy should be subject to proper planning, says Ian McKay Those of us involved in the day-to-day practice of...
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An attack on science
From Patrick Riley DESPITE the reassuring sub-heading of the article ("It is not scientific inquiry that produces anti-science feeling but distorted ideas of what it means to be 'scientific'") it...
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Ditch class approach
From Richard Hudson THREE cheers if "a consensus over abolishing traditional degree classifications" really is emerging (THES, March 28). Even by normal academic standards, degree classification is...
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Language barrier
From George Schopflin ANN LEWIS's critique of complex language (THES, April 4) is a perfect example of the dislike of abstract thought in the guise of anti-elitism and "common sense". All specialised...
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Musical youth
From Tim Footman RUPA HUQ (THES, April 4) endorsing Simon Frith's assertion about "student music" and "the sense of exclusiveness that being a student (at least in Britain) still entails", says that...