Postgraduates strike back
Postgraduates are becoming more demanding. They are fed up with poor supervision; they are waking up to the fact that they have intellectual property rights; they are becoming more ingenious about...
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Student loans fall-out
Contrary to the impression given by your report of the National Union of Students' extraordinary conference in Derby on education funding (THES, June 2), the decision it took to campaign for free...
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Irish baulk at expansion
University teachers in Ireland have accused the government of incoherence in its strategy to deal with growing numbers of full-time students. The Irish Federation of University Teachers is...
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Crushes or crushed
Jennie Bristow presented a picture of students deliberately and ritualistically setting out to enter into casual sexual relationships with their lecturers in universities and colleges. She questioned...
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Student loans fall-out
In "Opinion" (THES, June 2) you claim that it is the hard left celebrating after Derby. As an independent sabbatical officer not affiliated to a party, faction, or fan club I reject that claim....
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Rise of the managerial cadre
Robert Welch argues that devolving administrative tasks to academics may be efficient but is damaging to the original purpose of universities. On the upper storey of the cloister of the Collegium...
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More than a tragic storm in a teacup
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
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Big shout for research
Research has traditionally existed as a part of our culture, with scientific breakthroughs occurring in a more or less haphazard way. Small, self-governing groups have been responsible for major...
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Never-ending party
Zhores Medvedev looks at the problems facing Boris Yeltsin if he is to unite the ruling party before the crucial Duma elections in December. President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor...
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United appeal for a no zone
UN peacekeepers may be simply delaying the inevitable but they could do much more with the right support from senior planners, James Smith believes. Last September, I interviewed Canadian...
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The deception of Snow White
(Photograph) - This single frame captures the essential plot that a normal four-year-old child can understand. Snow White does not know that the old lady is really her wicked stepmother in disguise,...
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College raises security alarm
Despite spending Pounds 250,000 on improved security measures in the past six months, Manchester College of Arts and Technology was forced to resort to the High Court last week to remove two "...
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Union suffers battel losses
Students at Pembroke College in Oxford have called off their rent strike and disaffiliated from the National Union of Students, in a bitter culmination of their attempts to fight an increase in...
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Glasgow Caledonian University sign contract with Bimota
(Photograph) - Glasgow Caledonian University has signed a Pounds 500,000 contract with Italian motorcycle manufacturers Bimota to produce a world first in the internal combustion engine market, a...