Rude Health
Neither Freudian slip nor typographical error, contrary to speculative angst in Antithesis (THES, August 23). "Middlesexy" is the name of Middlesex University's innovative sexual health promotion...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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Mobility of Irish and Jewish immigrants
This month's prize for Sheer Academic Shamelessness goes to Ceri Peach ("A Question of Collar", THES, August 23). He calmly admits that there is no evidence for a central part of his highly...
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SS officer keeps degree
A German university has decided to allow a former Nazi SS member to keep the doctorate he earned under a pseudonym to conceal his wartime activities. The University of Erlangen-Nurnberg found no...
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Hooray for Henley
A switch in ministerial responsibilities at the Department for Education and Employment has left Lord Henley looking after higher education. Eric Forth, the former higher education minister, now has...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
It was good of Alexander Murray to provide such obvious target practice. His tone of high seriousness barely concealed some pretty ill-informed prejudices. The damning with faint praise of management...
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