A graceful slide to cheap 'n' nasty
Last autumn the Government was successfully bullied by higher education into supplying an extra Pounds 100 million to mitigate planned cuts this year: the price of persuading higher education to wait...
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Dolly is just cloning around
Dolly the cloned sheep has this week provided a new cause for angst. How are we to assess the dangers and the promise of such developments? The irony of our age is that as science advances, unreason...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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Assessment reassessed
As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
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It's not unusual
According to the leaked external audit, "The payment of fees to members of administration staff is unusual" (THES, February 21). An interesting choice of words, which raises a simple question: Why is...
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Teachers in exile
The chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency's claims (THES, February 21) that "initial teacher training is not an academic study, and therefore, an intrinsic part of higher education". When...
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Everest: no summit
THE COUNCIL for College and University English has not "condemned" the research assessment exercise's English panel's approach to grading, nor has it "backed" Professor Everest's open letter to...
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Greenwich meantime
The picture of the Royal Naval College Greenwich made a handsome impression (THES, February 14), but to write in the caption of its "acquisition" by the University of Greenwich is misleading. The...
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The next question is how much to pay
I have followed with great interest your detailed coverage of the current debate in Britain about introducing fees for university students ("Market forces and the charge of the fees brigade" THES,...
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Groves of academe no bed of roses
It is part of popular mythology that university teachers lead cushy lives. Their working days in pleasing quadrangles are short and stimulating. Their holidays and High Table dinners are long and...
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Don's Diary
Week one Have spent the end of last term and the Christmas holidays writing reports, notes, lesson plans, work schedules, mock exam papers - and I am exhausted. The groves of academe have signalled...
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Debt and division in Canada
For two decades, the student assistance system was as straightforward as social programmes get in Canada. There was a national system of student loans, the Canada Student Loan Plan (CSLP), from which...
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Rich robbed to prevent collapse
HIGH-FLYING universities have been plundered to pay for the less successful in a funding round aimed at fending off cash crises in individual institutions. But the 1997/98 allocations announced...
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Funding chiefs
FUNDING chiefs are seeking greater control of university building projects. Cuts in capital grant and the end of the first phase ofa backlog maintenance programme has sharply reduced the amount of...
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Degrees for sale on the Internet
An Internet service is selling fake degree certificates for Pounds 70 each. From his website Peter Quinn offers those "who have never had a chance at a university or college education" a choice of A-...