Pioneer state struggles to keep access door ajar
California's 30-year-old policy of offering a college education to any state resident who could benefit appears on the verge of falling apart. There is mounting concern among experts that a tidal...
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College warder
Wanted: Someone experienced in counselling undesirable members of the community institutionalised by years confined to aged, fortress-like buildings. No wonder then that Anthony Butler, chief careers...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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Biopiracy on the Big C
Tim Cornwell reports on the exploitation of the biological resources of indigenous peoples. Did the 260 Hagahai people of Papua New Guinea know that their genes might offer a cure for cancer?...
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The colour of intelligence
Rejected by his publishers and boycotted by his students, self-declared 'scientific racist' Chris Brand remains defiant. Olga Wojtas talks to him. As Chris Brand set out last week for a lunch...
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The colour of Intelligence
Hans Eysenck defends his right his right to speak. Hitler banned IQ testing, "becauseit was Jewish", Stalin banned it "because it was bourgeois". Now Wiley have reneged on a contract to publish Chris...
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Change out of Africa
In spite of its considerable achievements in the past three decades, the University of ABC finds itself in a precarious situation." Thus begins many a report by the World Bank or other external...
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Don's Diary
Friday. An early morning trip from Blackheath to Norwich. At the university printers I take delivery of two boxes of my "bare hands" monograph on Fermat's last theorem, published by the Mathematics...
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Quality with a very modern irony
Jennie Bristow's piece on the effects of quantity on quality in universities (THES, April 5) contained a singular irony. The course she cited as an example of the "access-driven" restructured,...
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Slipping to unfreedom
I do not believe grade inflation comes from within institutions (THES, April 19). I have experienced external examiners deciding that we "under mark" and substantially raising our grades, lifting...
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Slipping to unfreedom
The enthusiasm to define the essence of "graduateness", identify the sine qua non of the degree grade, and establish the panel of guardians of all that is unalloyed about the gold standard of the...
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Cut but not dried
May I appeal for clarity over the term "efficiency"? In one short article (THES, April 19) we have "efficiency gains", "efficiency squeezes" and "efficiency cuts". These terms appear to be used...
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Tussle over Tucson
Aisling Irwin's article (THES, April 12) gave the misleading impression that the talks hosted by Qinetics International were set up to counteract the Tucson "Towards the Science of Consciousness"...
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No news can be good news
The Pope - No News". Inscribed on evening paper placards by an ingenious publicity manager, that slogan did wonders for sales of the old Star among London catholics on a day when there genuinely was...