Openness is our business
Academics should be in the forefront of the campaign to press the new Labour administration to open up government, argue Iain McLean and Greg Terrill. So the Labour government will not introduce a...
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A punishment for no crime
ANTHEA MILLETT's letter about La Sainte Union, Southampton (THES, May 16), prompts two comments. The decision of the governing body not to appeal against withdrawal of its accreditation by the...
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History's men at war
TWO comments, one question, a task, and a moral (sounds like a good movie - I hope Hugh Grant is free!) relating to Harriet Swain's excellent discussion of the postmodernist critique of history (THES...
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Openness is a must
YOU report (THES, May 9) that Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, "has urged universities and colleges to be more open about the way they distribute...
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UCoSDA is a guide
TWO points in Alison Utley's engaging but in places misleading piece "Battle over training models" (THES, May 2) need clarifying. First, I have not sent questionnaires to academics in Scotland. The...
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The rise of the AUT
I WAS disappointed to see in your articles on lecturers' unions (THES, May 16) although you referred to the Association of University Teachers Council you omitted any mention of my presidential...
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A strike too far
LAST week the work of Kingsway College was disrupted by a one-day strike backed by fewer than 20 per cent of the college's lecturers. The action was driven through by a small political minority...
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Why credit is not due
AM I alone in having reservations about the ever increasing movement towards a credit-based modular system of higher education? My problems, from the point of view of a technological subject, are...
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Don's diary
Monday What time is it? Here in Chicago it is 6.30pm but, in my post-flight consciousness, it is after midnight and therefore Tuesday. Whichever, it is dark. Dimly-lit downtown looms like a manmade...
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God wins place in Poland
In a referendum on Sunday the Polish people look set to agree a new constitution, one that will, at long last, replace the model fraternally bequeathed by Stalin in 1952. The vote comes at a critical...
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Cleaner way to a brighter future
David Blunkett has been inundated with open letters but I have not seen a single mention of clerical and support staff. When staffing was mentioned it was fairly clear it meant academic and research...
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Tribal chic
(Photograph) - Tribal chic: The newsreader Trevor MacDonald, ill-fitting suits and Barbra Streisand were among the sources of inspiration for designs from Edinburgh College of Art fourth-year fashion...
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Akker takes legal advice
NATFHE chief John Akker is to take legal advice on challenging the union procedures which led to his sudden suspension amid claims of incompetence. Union insiders say that former general secretary Mr...
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Merritt inquiry urges code clarity
Clearer and "more emphatic" guidelines are required for governing bodies in higher education, the National Audit Office has said. An NAO investigation into events which led to the resignation of Neil...
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Principal quits ahead of management probe
Stan Mason, principal of Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland's highest-paid principal, has unexpectedly given up his post just as the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has announced a...