Loan silence
The best advice for students planning to ring the Student Loans Company's advice line may be to ring the National Union of Students Scotland instead. The union rang the advice line to check the loan...
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Oversupply of graduates disputed
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion FURTHER doubts surfaced this week about Government claims that graduate supply will soon outstrip...
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College call for cash rethink
A RADICAL overhaul of further education funding could follow Government threats to halt extra payments for growth. Colleges are contemplating staff cuts and have already turned away students...
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PRP? we don't want it
Your report of the plan by University College London to introduce an obsolescent profit-related pay scheme (THES, January 24) quotes the provost, Derek Roberts, as describing the Association of...
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Doing the business on pay
University academic and academic-related staff look set, after the formalities of ballots, to accept the 5.8 per cent pay offer over two years. Students can breathe a sigh of relief as the threat of...
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London needs umbrella
LONDON's higher education should be integrated citywide with a possible "opted out" privatised tier of top research institutions, says a leading educationist. Gareth Williams, head of the policy...
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Rain check
(Photograph) - Students marched in Brighton this week to demand lesbian, gay and bisexual equality. Cath Fletcher, convenor of the National Union of Students Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Campaign, said...
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Rent a historian
What exactly does Marianne Elliott mean by saying that "the Irish landlord may have been largely rehabilitated by historians" (Books, THES, January 24)? What historians like W. E. Vaughan have shown...
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Pull out calmly
We believe pensions should be taken very seriously. They are after all income which lecturers will rely on when their career ends. In response to Peter Koch's letter (THES, January 31) we are not...
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Not Frying tonight
A fresh gloss on Stephen Fry's disappearance from his West End performance in Cell Mates. Mr Fry is rector of Dundee University, and because of changes to Cell Mates, had to cancel a show he was...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Wake up in a hotel room in Canton at 4am for fear of missing my flight to Zhengzhou. Having researched foot-binding in China for five years, this field trip is to be the culmination of my...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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Wee colleges feel pressure to merge
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's latest allocations have come under attack for putting disproportionate pressure on smaller colleges. At St Andrew's College, Scotland's national Roman...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Fly to Warsaw with colleague. Met at airport by Polorbis travel courier with rail tickets. Ignore beggars at Central Station (it is getting more like London every day), and board Pieniny...
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