A profit scheme without honour
The concept of "profit" in relation to universities and colleges of higher education was until recently as alien to their staff as it was to officials at the Inland Revenue. However, the...
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Taylor misses innovation trick
Ian Taylor's article (THES, May 10) misses some very critical points. He rightly draws on the work of the Department for Trade and Industry's Innovation Unit. Indeed, if there are to be substantial...
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Orwellian mystery
I do not know where in Orwell's writings John Blundell (THES, May 3) found the injunction "This book should be read by everybody" referring to Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. The only place in Orwell's...
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Fertile fields of study
Hard-up biology departments are cutting field courses. Peter Cotgreave credits them with teaching him to think logically and scientifically and makes a plea for their retention. A friend who teaches...
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No aspersions on Henshaw
In the article on death in the air (THES, March 29), I am quoted as having stated that the National Radiological Protection Board saw Denis Henshaw's paper as a way of setting up his case for more...
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Postgraduate funds face strict test
Huw Richards's article (THES, May 10) on the Postgraduate Report which I chaired, it contains an important ambiguity which needs to be clarified before a myth gains currency. Our group has not...
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Free speech policy crumbles
Reading of the various attacks on the book The g Factor (THES, May 3) and its withdrawal by the publishers, it does occur to us that there is little point in having a policy to protect academic...
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Save law from universities' noose
The Lord Chancellor's report marginalises the influence of the legal profession, says Nigel Savage The first report of the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on legal education and training is a...
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Scholars rebuff partisan attack
Shula Marks's review of our Launching Democracy in South Africa: The First Open Election, April 1994 (THES, March 22) contains an all-out attack on our scholarly objectivity mainly, it would seem,...
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Market forces set an ugly agenda
On Monday April 29, nearly two years of national negotiations between the employers of adult education teachers - local authorities - and the university and college lecturers union, Natfhe, came to a...
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Crosses to bear in Malta
About 460 universities in Commonwealth countries belong to the Association of Commonwealth Universities and about 350 vice chancellors gathered at their meeting this year in Malta. A collection of so...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Last week at work before our departure to San Francisco to give a paper at "Picturing Justice: Images of Law and Lawyers in the Visual Media" is taken up with a mixture of teaching first-...
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Creative ideas on how to budget
Working under increasingly severe pressure, staff and students ensured at least until this session that the great majority of universities remained in financial surplus. Now, however, relative...
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A-carrying on considerable
Six years after its discovery, the original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn is about to appear in Britain. But does the much-hyped book tell scholars anything new about Mark Twain and his attitudes to...
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Between ape and angel
Sanjida O'Connell believes that if manners maketh man, then chimpanzees, who have a moral code, should be considered human scientists have been arguing that gorillas and chimpanzees are so close to...