Hopes of 6% growth
The new bids for growth in the further education sector reveal that colleges are extremely bullish about the prospects for recruiting even more students next year, despite fears from some quarters...
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Transatlantic reel
(Photograph) - Transatlantic reel: Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University and his wife, celebrate the university's 500th anniversary with US-based alumni at the British Embassy in...
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Community service in jeopardy
Republicans in the House of Representatives want to axe President Bill Clinton's national service programme which gives young people money for college in return for good deeds in the community. They...
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Between a rock . . .
Natfhe, the college lecturers' union, is caught in a vice. On the one hand, the Association of University Teachers looks attractive to upwardly mobile staff in new universities. On the other, the...
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Greetings to one QA body
The news this week that agreement has been reached in principle for the formation of a single quality assessment organisation is most welcome. Now it should be possible to move forward to design a...
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Student defaulters
I read the article by Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr with interest, in places not unmixed with agreement - until I reached the phrase "The Student Loan Company projects up to 490,000 defaulters by...
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Picking ants' brains to make connections
The article by David Salt (THES, April 28) is highly critical of the connectionist approach to artificial intelligence. Some of his criticism of is well aimed, but connectionism is not a monolithic...
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Darwinism for today
Those who know anything about evolutionary biology (aka Neo-Darwinism) are invariably dismayed by the tiresome claims that Brian Goodwin ("Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory", THES,...
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Man seeks damages for sex bias
A barrister has accused the University of Melbourne of discriminating against him for a position in its French department because he is Australian and a male. Peter Freckleton is seeking a ruling...
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Human capital proves worth
Improving workers' education can boost productivity more than adding tools and machinery, according to the census bureau of the United States department of education. Based on interviews with...
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Guildhall called to account
The Majid case at London Guildhall University (THES, May 19) ought to be causing great public concern on three counts, apart from the central one of injustice to an individual. Guildhall has spent...
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Black rule hits league tables
The number of African students registered at South African universities has trebled in the past ten years - and for the first time last year more students were black than any other race group -...
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High ideals into practice do not go
How long will it take for "Nolanism" to enter our political vocabulary? Lord Nolan's report has been widely welcomed outside the house if not in it and its philosophical starting point or watchwords...
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Suspect hair, clear vision
Simon Targett talks to an ex-Cabinet minister who is bright enough to teach at Harvard, Shirley Williams. House of Lords. Peers' entrance. An odd place to meet a professor of elective politics, you...