Forfeit for four-year sacrifice
Four-year degree courses have been developed by many university science and engineering departments for a variety of reasons. These include: the need for more content , particularly complementary...
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Turning green into gold
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The THES summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
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The administrators
Angela Crum-Ewing is the retiring deputy registrar at Reading University. She entered university administration at the age of 39 after taking time out to care for a family of four children. When her...
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Lipstick and white collars
Elaine Williams reports on the slow progress of women in the male world of academic management. Working in universities has been good preparation for a gentleman's club". One of the three new women...
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The vice chancellors
Three women take up vice chancellor posts in September, bringing the total number of women v-cs in the UK to five. However, their personal styles and reputations are very different. Christine King is...
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Leagues expose lecturers' quality quirks
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...
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Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
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Ways and Mensa to get ahead
Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with the highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs...
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OST inquiry
The transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry will be the subject of an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, as part of an...
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Farmers look ahead to see woods and trees
Welsh farmers are re-examining their use of land because agriculture profits are forecast to fall and returns from forestry expected to increase. To prevent Wales following Languedoc in Southern...
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We are not amused
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...
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Benign dictators need academics
I have read John Rear's well-crafted apology for the new university managements (THES, October 21). It is a fine piece of rhetoric. I also attended Friday's meeting of the Council for Academic...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
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Living language, breathing culture
Robert Jeffcoate's article (Back-to-grammar-school, THES, September 30) is an extremely unhelpful contribution to the ongoing debate about the teaching of English. Most of it is a very tedious list...