Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
I sincerely hope that the desire to limit the research function of most universities will not be taken on board by the Dearing committee. I strongly believe that this would make the idea of an...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
Your editorial highlighted the trend for rewards in both the private and public sector to become concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals, while others enjoy no perks or even paid...
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Loamshire quality questioned by degrees
It was always probable that the uncontrolled expansion of higher education would call into question the assumption that a degree of a similar class in one university would be the equivalent of the...
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Too tired to turn new ideas to profit
Dear Ron, please do something, particularly about the money. This might be the best way to sum up the submissions sent in to the Dearing review of higher education by today's deadline. The...
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The biggest shift since Henry VIII?
The establishment of the Greenwich Observatory by Charles II in 1675 was the state's first venture into funding science. It says something for the wholesale disposal of family silver on which the...
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Afghans fight to keep peace
Balkh University in Mazar-e-Sharif is an oasis of peace in war-torn Afghanistan, solid on the outside but ramshackle on the inside. When the extremist Muslim Taliban forces seized Kabul in September...
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Academic accused of forgery
A PROFESSOR of the Albanophone University of Pristina is facing charges of forgery for signing the degree diploma conferred on an ethnic Albanian from Montenegro. The Montenegrin authorities do not...
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Cheating racket used time zones
SEVERAL hundred students in the United States who paid to join an elaborate cheating scheme will have their graduate exam results revoked and are almost sure to lose their university places - some at...
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Striptease tickles feminists' fancy
ROWDY female pre-marital outings known as hen or bachelorette parties, which seem to glorify the bride-to-be as a sex object, can lead to "women's empowerment", say two Canadian professors. For the...
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A foundation of sand eels
THE NATIONAL Environment Research Council's sea mammal research unit, which recently moved from Cambridge to St Andrews University, is to be a key player in a study of the impact of a nearby sand-eel...
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Boring teaching leads to unrest
DISAFFECTED school children such as those at the Ridings School in Halifax are not just a British phenomenon, according to European Union researchers. A group of educational academics including...
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World Reputation Rankings 2012
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Collider on cash course
HUNDREDS of millions of pounds of backing from countries including the United States and Japan look set to pour into Europe's particle-smashing project at Cern in Geneva. Funds had been under threat...