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Merger at the ministry
As an ex-DFE official who supported many of Geoffrey Holland's ideas about the relationship between education and employment, perhaps I might enter the debate between him and Mary Warnock (THES, July...
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Merger at the ministry
One doesn't have to be a member of the great and the good to agree with Baroness Warnock's analysis of the confusion between education and training. When the former polytechnics became universities...
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Merger at the ministry
Geoffrey Holland is right to point out that a key feature of the Department of Employment's structure that will be inherited by the new combined department is the regional office network. The...
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On safari from the patient zoo
How refreshing to find Peter Richards, of the rapidly evolving Imperial College School of Medicine (THES, July 7), questioning "how far a large school was good for undergraduate teaching". The...
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Visitor to rule on v-c's power
Norman Dombey, in dispute with his vice chancellor, asks whether the ancient office of visitor can copewith today's conflicts. The University College of Sussex Ltd. was established as a limited...
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Doctors on the move
Karen Mac Gregor's article (THES, May 19) on doctors leaving South Africa, perpetuates a perception rather than reporting established facts. A study, published in the South African Medical Journal in...
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Unharmed by fear of death
Regarding "Perspective" (THES, July 14), I do not suffer from "chronic metaphysical fear of death". Does this mean by John Webester's argument that my early demise would not harm me? M. J. PHYTHIAN...
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Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
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Sacred cows' herd instincts
Critical theory, claims one former adherent, is now so dominant in English faculties that it has become the new orthodoxy and a real threat to academic freedom. The debate over the ascendancy of...
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In praise of unknown metre maids
David Charter reports on the critical rediscovery of long-neglected women poets. Wordsworth's wandering lonely days are over. The image of the solitary Romantic hero, busy communing with nature and...
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Creating the citizen scientist
Public participation in science policy is relatively unknown in the UK. But, as Jon Turney discovers, the Dutch and the Danes have long been pioneers in this area, while Alan Irwin makes the case for...
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Hot tips for a tardy planet
Ragnar Lofstedt fears that action on global warming will only start when the economic consequences begin to bite Global warming is one of the most controversial environmental topics - largely because...
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CVCP offers own quality ideas
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has written to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment this week with its own proposals for a single agency to assure quality in...