Knights ride fair in pay table
A statistical analysis identifies relationships but explanation needs more careful consideration. Your front page report ("Knights top pay league" THES, September 8) fails to realise this when it...
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Publish and be paid
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. There appears to be a general feeling that in this research assessment exercise the powers that be have just...
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Scandal of postgrad army
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. The Higher Education Funding Council for England's submission to the Secretary of State on the development of...
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Mired in trivialities
This has been a ridiculous summer. The GCSE/A level standards debate is an annual ritual but this year has seen additional hysteria over "worthless" degrees, too easy entry to higher education and...
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Question of degree without A levels
The current debate surrounding the propriety of admitting to undergraduate courses those without A levels seems to blur an important distinction. There is a long tradition, extending to Oxbridge, of...
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Question of degree without A levels
Maggie Woodrow (THES September 8) misses the point. Home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them. They become...
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Call for CEF to 'get real'
We, the Executive of Blackburn College Natfhe Branch, would like to correct a misleading impression caused by Roger Ward (THES, September 1). Last September many FE colleges throughout the country...
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Intelligentsia fears
The rector of Sarajevo University, Faruk Seleskevic, has made an urgent appeal to the international scientific community to warn governments against the deteriorating situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina...
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Soros funding under attack
President Alaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus has accused the Soros Foundation of being a covert talent-scout for the West. The Soros Fund, he said, entices young people abroad with scholarships - and...
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Merger cure for Chinese growing pains
Higher education in China has expanded too rapidly in the opinion of responsible government body, the State Education Commission. To improve efficiency and academic capacity, more than 100...
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More students can mean less
One statistic which is embedded in the consciousness of higher education policy-makers and even more so of those at the sharp end in universities and colleges is that the age participation rate - the...
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Conflicts over water
As rain washes the issues of water shortage and drought out of the headlines, at least temporarily, another water-related subject emerges in the media, namely the possibility of the merger of two...
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The future of the BA
For over 100 years, journalists have thought of "the BA" not as an organisation but as a week, round about the end of the silly season, when science erupts all over the newspapers. As an annual...
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Arbitrary rules which impede learning
Three years ago Victoria College offered a subject at A level as a one-year course. Twenty students signed up for it and the results were so good that we offered the course again the following year....
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Private French university takes flak from rivals
The first French version of a United States-style private university kept a low profile when it opened last week. Amid stinging criticism in the French press and with demonstrators demanding its...