Are students a therapists' gravy train?
Lecturers Laura Spira and Mark Griffiths argue that students face unprecedented stresses and financial hardship today. Both disparage Jennie Bristow's suggestion that if she can handle student life,...
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Are students a therapists' gravy train?
When I read Jennie Bristow's article (THES, October 18) I felt no immediate need to respond as I thought that Laurie Taylor was foxing us by moving his column from the back page. I obviously confused...
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Marxism is not dead
John Ashworth and Helena Cronin (THES, October 18) assert that so called "Marxist political systems" across the world have been repudiated following the dissolution of the USSR and that, along with...
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The folly of the ivy?
As four British universities prepare to join an international network, Simon Midgley and Geoff Maslen examine university links and the feasibility of a world super league of institutions. Education...
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Magazines satisfy a national obsession
Officially all German universities are equal. A key principle of the egalitarian, anti-elitist, federal state is that students have equal opportunities whether they study in Konstanz in the south or...
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Ideology ends official quest for quality picture
The ELECTION of a conservative government in Australia last March saw the end of the only official system of ranking universities, writes Geoff Maslen. The former Labor government introduced annual...
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Grapevine guide to a spread of excellence
Italy has no independent organisation for evaluating universities in terms of standards and productivity. What is known about universities and single departments is the result of direct knowledge,...
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All colleges great and small know their place
LATE last month, the University of California at Davis, a 24,000-student campus which made its name fostering the California wine industry, got an unusual offer. The president of the Association of...
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Right said Sir Fred
Sir Fred Hoyle, treated like a heretic for saying that life on earth came from space, tells Lucy Hodges why he is nevertheless suspicious of Nasa's claims to have found traces of life in a Martian...
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For all creatures great and small
As Roger Scruton argues that animals are "insensible", I cannot comprehend his statement that hounds and horses also experience "pleasure" in tearing a fox to pieces. Or is Professor Scruton...
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Unrest follows arrests
A new wave of ethnic protest has broken out in Skopje, capital of Macedonia, following the sentencing of five academics of the unofficial Albanian-language University of Tetovo to terms of...
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Ancillary staff support
Iwrite to associate the Transport and General Workers Union with the battle against cash cuts in higher education (THES, June 28). Attention may have centred on mortar boards but the T&G is...
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Scottish quango appointments to go public
The Scottish Office is proposing to seek external advice on appointments to the boards of six educational quangos, including the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Michael Forsyth, secretary...
