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Yearly grumbling from universities seems to have moderated as results of a popular annual survey of Canadian universities appeared on news-stands this month. University officials still complain that...
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Zealous Zyl's call for change in Pretoria
He may be a white Afrikaner male, but there will be no "business as usual" at the University of Pretoria when vice chancellor elect, Johan van Zyl, takes over the reins of South Africa's largest...
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How v-cs could play a loan hand
The Australian senate was debating the higher education sections of the Howard government's summer budget this week. The package puts most of the burden of savings from higher education on students...
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Sense and vocational sensibility
AS THE British higher education system begins to delaminate because of its financing problems, hard-nosed employers are having doubts about some vocationally linked degree courses. At least so we are...
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Sheep may safely gaze
The sanity of the men from the ministry is the only thing at risk from the dissection of sheep's eyes The prohibition by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the use of sheep's eyes for...
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IT cannot replace eye-to-eye
Technology may save money for the cash-strapped OU but students may suffer Information technology means job cuts. Not always, not everywhere. But it is now impossible to pretend that the higher...
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Arts grads fit the bill
Michael Worton's article (THES, November 22) on the invaluable contribution of graduates in arts and humanities to society and the economy is timely given the Government's blinkered obsession with...
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Risky sums
BOB GUNN, in criticising Peter Knight's calculations of funding per student for teaching (THES, November 29), has introduced a concept that is irrelevant and even dangerous. It amounts to making...
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Teacher agency strikes wrong note
I AM MORE sympathetic to the Teacher Training Agency's general strategy for teacher training than many of Anthea Millett's critics (Letters, THES, November 22), but her defence of the agency's record...
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Teacher agency strikes wrong note
IN READING Anthea Millett's reply to lan Kane "Important tasks for the TTA" I was immediately reminded of one of D. H. Lawrence's lines: "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." There will be loud...
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Missing Molotov
Your photograph, "Wary allies: Molotov meets Churchill and Eden in London (1942)", shown with John Erickson's penetrating review (THES, November 22) of Oleg Rzheshevsky's War and Diplomacy, reveals...
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Bring back humans
IF THE prospect of being replaced by a computer was not alarming enough ("Lecturers frozen out", THES, November 22), I was incensed to read that this was to be the result of "student-centred"...
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Jungian analysts step into critical minefield
SCHOLARS interested in Carl Jung's ideas and Jungian analysts have, for many years, been highly critical of many of Jung's theories, attitudes and actions. You could say there has been an experiment...
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Jungian analysts step into critical minefield
AS MY Jungian analyst friends have pointed out - and yes indeed, I do have a few - the statement in my article on Jung contains what may be an incorrect statement. In the published text the claim is...
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Jungian analysts step into critical minefield
THE CONCEPT of collective unconscious that Richard Noll excoriates may not be quite what he supposes. No one doubts that our instincts are shared with the animals. There is a band at the top of...