GNVQ 'degrees' mooted in paper
New higher level vocational qualifications which could "define the content and standards professional bodies seek in degrees" are proposed in a consultation paper launched this week. General National...
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Spiritual policeman is fellow
A veteran clergyman who helped achieve the terrorist cease-fires in Northern Ireland has been appointed as a research fellow of the Centre for the Study of Conflict. The Reverend Roy Magee is to...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...
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Mining a native talent
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
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A House beyond repair?
In the middle of July, in the dog days of the parliamentary session, Andrew Rowe, the Tory MP for Mid-Kent, stood up in the House of Commons and delivered a tirade that would not, in its rhetorical...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...
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Beauty is in the eye of the hunter
Continuing our series on the intellectual impact of Darwinism, John Barrow argues that the reason we find such things as parks, cosy alcoves and paintings of flowers so aesthetically pleasing is...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. I am in Berlin for the 14th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, always called Inqua. I am a bit worried about this conference, the circulars and registration...
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Lean times for Aussie economists
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...
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Europe's quality wave hits Euro
Recently, I was privileged to attend, on behalf of the Committee for Vice-Chancellors and Principals, a meeting in Brussels. This involved an "expert" working group of the Liaison Committee of the...
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The virtues of silliness
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. This exercise will involve an assessment of the quality of the research undertaken in university departments...
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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...