The suits tailor a parochial debate
Late last month, 250 of higher education's Great and the Good met in the august surroundings of the Royal Society to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Society for Research into Higher Education....
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...
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Myanmar students rally for rights
Hundreds of students in Rangoon have defied the military government of Myanmar (Burma), to honour the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. They gathered in front of her home to celebrate a traditional...
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Portugal suspends tuition fee law
The incoming Socialist government in Portugal is suspending the controversial tuition fee law as promised by leader Antonio Guterres in the party election manifesto. In its place students at state...
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Greek universities shut for week
Greek universities are to close for a week as a warning and longer if necessary if the government fails to solve their long-standing financial and operational problems. Their collective debt is...
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Let us firm up the foundations first
Last Sunday I told the Labour party's national education conference that I had changed my mind about the further expansion of the number of students entering higher education. I did so with the...
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Spare an ear for unease
This week spare a thought for the animals. The number of transgenic animals bred and experimented on is rocketing; the issue of the "oncomouse", bred to develop cancer is in the news again, as is the...
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Privates on parade
Private colleges in Malaysia will have to show that their courses meet national needs as one of five new conditions imposed by the education ministry, before it approves licences for new courses or...
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Oxbridge exaggerates the gender gap
Gillian Sutherland's observations on the alleged "gender deficit" (THES, October 13) contain many justified criticisms of assessment practices in universities. However, the premise that "girls...
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Euro-wide paralysis
Across Europe governments - and oppositions - are in trouble over the political and economic implications of the rapid transition to mass higher education. In just a few years aspirations have turned...
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Haggling in the marketplace
The animal spirits of education entrepreneurs have rewarded Iona Burchell with two degrees, debt and no job I noticed a job advertisement the other day in a local paper which proudly proclaimed that...
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Tesco, ergo sum
Richard A. Burridge argues that a crisis of value in higher education is shortchanging students and society. The academy in ancient Athens was at the edge of the agora so that its deliberations about...