South African quality quest
South Africa's Committee of University Principals is to establish a quality promotion unit along the lines of Britain's Higher Education Quality Council to monitor and advise on academic standards....
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Confusion as centre holds
Gordon F. Sander reports on a Social Democrat's attempt to innovate while turning back the tide of market reform. A year after replacing a Conservative government which extensively decentralised...
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Bankrupt ideology of new right
I know that it is pointless to suggest to ideologues like David Marsland (THES, August 4) that calls for the re-application of right-wing policies - "smaller government, less taxes . . . et al" -...
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The new model university for the Millenium
Ray Cowell argues that seminal developments in recent years amount to re-inventing the role of institutions. The international debate on the future of higher education ranges over a perplexing number...
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Blur-ed view
I note that your issue of August 18 carries considerable coverage of the A level results. How are we supposed to evaluate this if we do not know how many A levels Blur and Oasis have got? TOM M....
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Beware the Iron Law of Elitism'
It cannot have escaped anybody's attention that students are becoming both relatively and absolutely impoverished. First grants were frozen, and then they were cut, leaving most with too little for...
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Common health games
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
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Anna of grand fables
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
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Satanic disabuser
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...
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Breach in Web security
Queen's University, Belfast is having to check all 1,500 medical photographs held on a pilot orthopaedic teaching database, which until last Friday was linked to the World Wide Web, after a complaint...
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Admissions tutor Jenny Reed and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England
(Photograph) - Course countdown: admissions tutor Jenny Reed (right) and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England match students to places as clearing gets under way.
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Heavy paper weight
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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Strength is in unity for Scots FE lobbyists
Scotland's three further education organisations have joined together to create a single voice for the sector. The Employers' Association, the Association for Colleges Scotland and the Association...