First Impressions
The words of this week's First Impressions, our newcompetition in which you have to identify the opening sentenceof a well-known book, were penned by a novelist regarded as one of the greatest...
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Built-up
(Photograph) - Built-up:the Centenary Building, University of Salford, by Hodder Associates this week won the Architecture in Education Award, one of the categories in the annual competition held by...
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Noticeboard: College Performance 1996
The FE league tables appeared in The Times Higher Education Supplement today under the heading "Noticeboard: College Performance 1996". This listing for England and Wales is NOT available on this...
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Minister rubbishes media courses
MEDIA studies and other "in-vogue" courses are turning out students unfit for the labour market, education minister James Paice told college principals this week. Speaking at the annual conference of...
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Laurels for the hardy
Plaudits are being heaped on Harry Kroto as Britain's first science Nobel laureate in a decade. He just hopes that his new-found prominence will help heap better funds on the UK's basic science too....
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To choose to go local
In a trailer for a forthcoming special issue of Demos, Geoff Mulgan ("Home View", THES, November 1) signals the choice before universities to go global or local. He suggests that the challenge is not...
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Guildhall sackings
As the five sacked academics from London Guildhall University referred to in The THES (November 8), we wish to focus on the contradiction of sacking teachers when more students are entering higher...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
The "Fat cat factor" (Leader, THES, November 8) gave good coverage of the case for a fair pay settlement in higher education. The case was made even more sharply in the appointments pages of the same...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
Your editorial highlighted the trend for rewards in both the private and public sector to become concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals, while others enjoy no perks or even paid...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
I sincerely hope that the desire to limit the research function of most universities will not be taken on board by the Dearing committee. I strongly believe that this would make the idea of an...
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No mission, no prize
A few months ago the University of Central England and The THES announced a competition to submit a mission statement that would encapsulate the aims and objectives of higher education in the next...
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A better work ethic
The front-page report, "Bosses to call the shots" (THES, October 18) drives more nails in the coffin of academic and intellectual independence from the ideology of the free market. Populist measures...
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Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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Keep the alumni fire burning
A year ago while meeting with two senior officials of a well-established Danish university, I had occasion to discuss fundraising activities directed at corporations and individuals by universities...
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Labour's X file
Labour is so focused on winning the next election that it has pruned its policy pledges to avoid alienating potential voters. But the radically minded should not despair. Ben Pimlott dares to suggest...