Miracles are our business
A few days ago I strolled into the office of one my best friends, an economist. France's unemployment rate for the past month had been made public that very morning, and widely commented upon. I...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Brighton. Another "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
I hope I was not alone in finding Valentine Cunningham's article intellectually shallow and socially rather offensive. I found it particularly strange that a teacher of English would hint that...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
Valentine Cunningham's argument ("Cash for Colleges", THES, October 25) is a dangerous one which suggests that universities should turn their back on some types of external funding although they have...
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Small is beautiful for Scots
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Scotland's compactness has allowed the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Benn on Blair
Tony Benn fires another salvo at New Labour in a review of Brian Brivati's biography of Hugh Gaitskell on page 24. He rejects perceptions of Gaitskell as an early Blairite moderniser, presenting him...
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Catch in tax dodge
I read with interest your report of the Profit Related Pay scheme (PRP) at the University of the West of England, whereby an element of salary will be paid as a tax-free "profit" distribution. No...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry argues for axing engineering faculties that accept students with low A-level points. I disagree. The purpose of education is to change minds, and the purpose of engineering is to change...
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Trend to tighter graduate targets
Graduate employers are getting "too choosy", according to the quarterly Graduate Salary and Vacancy Survey. Figures show that employers are targeting students more specifically than ever before. The...
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Holy grain
(Photograph) - Sculptor John Houlston has donated a representation of the solar system carved from a 500-year-old oak to the chapel at King's College London. The new one-tonne lectern, called The...
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Loans row hits poll
Already stumbling badly, Republican candidate Bob Dole's presidential campaign is now on the defensive over the United States' student loan programme. Republican attacks on popular "direct" loans...
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Safe as houses
Rooms at Dundee University's new Pounds 3.5 million halls of residence are fitted with safes operated by student bank or credit cards using a "swipe" system.
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's article is an interesting proposal but worthy of further testing. There are no academic absolutes in the criteria employed to determine admissions to any degree course. The A-level...
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China clamps down on poor doctorates
China is getting tough with universities that fail to meet established criteria for awarding doctorates and is to standardise the appraisal system for degrees later this year. There are 2,500...
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...