Atmosphere of condescension in SF review
Graeme Harper's sympathetic review of five books of recent science fiction criticism (THES, March 1) is marred by an (unintentional?) air of condescension in the final paragraph where he writes that...
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Firm stand on union changes
Given the importance of the issues raised in "Students wary of plan to turn union into firm" (THES, February 23), I should like to clarify some aspects relating to the recommendation that the...
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Invited guest editor
Dan Keohane's full and favourable review (THES, February 23) of the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies ("A state of truce: Northern Ireland after 25 years of war" ERS, October 1995), did not...
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Why did dispute drag on?
In June 1994, Norman Dombey was elected by the academic faculty of the school of mathematical and physical sciences of Sussex University to serve on the senate of the university for three years from...
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Foresight Saga
David Smith and Howard Green worry that Technology Foresight is the missing link. Jean Jacques Rousseau abandoned his five children to the Hopital des Enfants-trouves, but said: "I know full well no...
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Cut off at the pass
Sir Ron Dearing this week describes the Robbins principle that "courses of higher education should be available to all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to...
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You can't revive a corpse
We recognise that reductions on this scale and suddenness are likely to cause difficulties for institutions," the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has said. The...
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Tuition fees get mixed reception
Six months after Hungarian universities introduced tuition fees, students still have mixed feelings about the mandatory 2,000 forints (Pounds 10) monthly charges, writes Nick Holdsworth. In a society...
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Debt and divided loyalties in funding crisis
Peter Medgyes defines his life as a senior Hungarian university official as increasingly schizophrenic. As vice chancellor of Hungary's oldest university Eotvos Lorand (ELTE) in Budapest, he...
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Perpetual students warned
Students who linger over their degrees in southern and western states of the United States may face penalties if they fail to complete their studies within the traditional four years. Most US...
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Election jitters prompt job shift
New Zealand has a new education minister following a cabinet reshuffle in the lead up to the country's first proportional representation election. Long-serving education minister Lockwood Smith has...
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Review as a mug's game
Having just engaged the professional services of a solicitor at Pounds 125 per hour, the absurd position that academics who publish in professional journals have procured for themselves was brought...
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Toothsome prospects
Something is about to be done about the plight of contract researchers. The number of fixed-term contract researchers in higher education mushroomed between 1980 and 1993 from around 8,000 to 18,000...
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Modernisers race against time
As the funding crisis in Hungary's public sector deepens, government and higher education officials are working frantically on legislation to speed up the modernisation of institutions. A substantial...
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Black staff reject Wits verdict
An inquiry by a top South African lawyer has cleared 13 senior academics at the University of Wi****ersrand of allegations of misconduct levelled against them by William Malegapuru Makgoba, the...