Thesis theories
The United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education's conclusion that the traditional PhD thesis may be out of date (THES, September ) is surely fallacious. It does not follow that "differences in the...
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Thesis theories
Andrew Morgan's letter about an article on the UK Council for Graduate Education's report on the PhD by published work (THES, October 11) shows that he has much to say about doctoral work but has...
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Why the NHS is a perverse role model
I did not know whether to laugh or cry when I read David Albury's piece last week (THES, October 11). It is based on so many misperceptions and inaccuracies, and displays such a defective...
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Why the NHS is a perverse role model
David Albury proposes a radical restructuring of academic life. Staff would become independent contractors, who bid for work from managers, who would specify courses and research programmes to meet...
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Hands on market controls
For New Zealand universities, like those elsewhere, life is getting difficult. The value of our contribution to society is no longer taken as read. We are more and more required to defend and justify...
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A tip from Florida on college taxes
One of Mrs Thatcher's famous remarks was that society did not exist. But if she could have invented a society it would no doubt have been Miami - it has no income tax, grand opulence and more film...
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Right said Sir Fred
Sir Fred Hoyle, treated like a heretic for saying that life on earth came from space, tells Lucy Hodges why he is nevertheless suspicious of Nasa's claims to have found traces of life in a Martian...
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The evolution revolution
Marxism's decline has been followed by a link up between evolutionary biology and social science which should produce startling insights into human behaviour, argue John Ashworth and Helena Cronin....
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What a waste
Obliterating the binary line was a mistake, argues Mary Warnock. It ruined the vocational role of the former polytechnics and fatally debased the value of a university degree. The binary line which...
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We were always ethical folk
Robert Eaglestone examines the resurgence of a topic long neglected by many in the world of theory. Ethics" argued Steven Connor in the TLS, "seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged...
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University on verge of tax-free pay deal
A CONTROVERSIAL "tax-free pay" scheme looks set to be introduced at the University of the West of England to fend off the effects of an enrolment shortfall. Rob Cuthbert, assistant vice chancellor,...
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Full-time teacher cuts hit standards
SCRIMPING on full-time staff to save cash could lower college standards, according to the Further Education Funding Council's annual inspection report. In his third and final report before retiring...
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Long walk from apartheid
THE SOUTH AFRICAN government, under pressure to move quickly to end the inequalities in higher education of the apartheid era, is to explore ways to "Africanise" its now heavily-Eurocentric...
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Losing their heads
Nearly a quarter of college principals have retired in the past three years, a survey by the Further Education Funding Council reveals. Of the 155 colleges which have changed their principal since...
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Brand takes a back seat
Edinburgh University's psychology department was guilty of an error of judgement in appointing self-styled "scientific racist" Chris Brand as convener of an ethics committee, the university's dean of...