Labour late to the Conservative tax
The latest U-turn from the Labour Party on a graduate tax is surely one of its most spectacular policy reversals in recent days. Conservative Students have campaigned consistently over the past six...
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Surfing on the waves from Durham
Scientists concerned about science's relationship with society feel that those best placed to illuminate it are studying irrelevant issues instead. Meanwhile, sociologists say they already have...
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Redundancies loom
A fifth of English higher education universities and colleges expect to make staff redundant or encourage early retirement in the next four years, according to funding council returns. Their...
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`How many lives was it worth?'
The name above his study door -- in neatly painted letters, white on black -- was T. D. Weldon and, although the initials did not actually stand for "Territorial Decoration'', they might well have...
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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...
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A little inflation could go a long way
Though shifted from its historic springtime niche in what may have been Norman Lamont's one lasting achievement as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget Day remains one of the great rituals of British...
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The all-new hot desk shuffle
How many hours a week do you actually spend at your desk? Research, lecturing, meetings and collaboration with industry are rarely desk-based. A lecturer may spend relatively little time at the desk...
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Obliged to stay silent for the group
Your editorial of November 11 makes a welcome call for the defence of tolerance in universities: yet, as it suggests, this will not be an easy argument to sustain. On the one hand, defence of...
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Keepers of the olive grove
John Rear leads with his chin when he writes about managerialism and academic freedom in higher education (THES, October 21). He had realised that at the Council for Academic Autonomy he was being...
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Policy studies have come of age
It is only a little more than ten years ago that British academics were lamenting the paucity of education policy studies in this country and contrasting this sorry state of affairs with the...
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Still the small voice
Universities are the unsung heroes of the National Health Service. They work with it to provide all undergraduate medical education. They provide most of the research which the NHS will use to treat...
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Age-old problems
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Arthur Marwick has (in the past) chided me and others...
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Nuptial match
The honeymoon period in further education is drawing to a close." Thus Roger Ward, chief executive of the College Employers' Forum last week. What honeymoon? If the past year has been a honeymoon for...
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Jewish masters launched
The University of Potsdam has introduced Germany's first master's degree in Jewish studies with special emphasis on Jewish-German history. The course opens just as racism has reared its ugly head...