Lecturers frozen out
IT to reduce staff by the year 2000, say universities. Thousands of university lecturers took to the streets this week to protest at underfunding and low pay. But universities are planning to cut...
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No, no, not that nut
Hundreds of academics from Glasgow and Strathclyde universities, converging on the city's ABC cinema for a mass rally on their day of action, discovered that the film showing was The Nutty Professor.
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Polish minister avoids press
Journalists covering a lecture by Polish education minister Jerzy Wiatr at the University of Lodz were ejected from the building last week. The journalists were grabbed and thrown down steps by men,...
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Reform of maths hits trouble
MATHEMATICS will suffer if the Government rushes through a proposed restructure of modular A levels before the general election, leading academics and politicians have warned. Mathematics academics...
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Uphill task for colleges
NEWS THAT 13-year-olds in England are failing at mathematics has been seized on by the London Mathematical Society as further confirmation of sharply declining ability among students. The study of...
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Cost-cutting campaign puts colleges at risk
COLLEGES could be put at risk if drives for efficiency continue at the same rate, further education chiefs have warned. The Further Education Funding Council's 1995/96 annual report reveals a...
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Notts expansion
The University of Nottingham is to build a Pounds 40 million campus designed by architect Sir Michael Hopkins. It will house the schools of management and finance, faculty of education and the...
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Starvation on a planet of plenty
As the World Food Summit opens in Rome, Laura Kelly shows how hunger is an increasing menace for many just as global food production is stagnating, and Vittoria D'Alessio asks food experts what is...
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The great and not so good
Suman Gupta argues that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. The debate that followed the publication of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, an attack on Eliot's anti-...
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A laureate accused
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...
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Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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A better work ethic
The front-page report, "Bosses to call the shots" (THES, October 18) drives more nails in the coffin of academic and intellectual independence from the ideology of the free market. Populist measures...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
I sincerely hope that the desire to limit the research function of most universities will not be taken on board by the Dearing committee. I strongly believe that this would make the idea of an...