Aggressive fund-raising key to successful v-cs
* Britain's academics need to accept that aggressive fund-raising is central to their sector's future, according to a new report. The UK Vice-Chancellor Study of University Development, by James...
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Transsexual quits nursing course
* A transsexual nursing student at Dundee University is believed to have dropped out of her course after the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland asked for her birth...
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Oxford hits back at employment snub
* Oxford University has hit back at a survey that placed it seventh in a graduate employment league table, which was topped by Cambridge. Oxford vice chancellor Colin Lucas stressed this week that...
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Creationists lie low in Darwin dispute
* Creationist groups who want to see a traditional biblical explanation for the world taught as a viable alternative to evolution have been boosted by moves in Kansas to remove Darwin from the school...
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Of course students cheat
* In last week's THES Bristol University senior physics tutor Jef Odell was quoted as saying "of course students cheat" with regard to the university's ability to police high-tech cheating in student...
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Born-again fears in age of science
Britain's creationists are a small, self-effacing band by comparison with their US counterparts. Their emphasis is on debates within the church rather than on changing the National Curriculum. But...
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A place for everyone in a joined-up lifelong sector
Third in our summer series on education at at century's end, David Melville precicts a seamless post-16 learning environment. Greater challenges lie ahead for further education, and for post-16...
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Cluster with clout
With some bumps along the road, the UK's bioindustry cluster seems to be on the way this week with the results of three high-technology planning applications near Cambridge (page 44). A big expansion...
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Let poetic voice speak
Simon Kovesi's handy new edition of John Clare's Love Poems, which I have just adopted for the first-year core course in English at the University of Exeter, does not challenge the integrity of Eric...
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Credit due
Regarding the article "Fed-up fee-payers set to sue" (THES, August 6), please note that the research and academic article that followed from it (Education and the Law Autumn 1999) was done in...
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Library moans
With regard to the overview of (among other things) student attitudes to college library facilities ("College libraries brought to book", THES, August 6), do we really need such a survey to discover...
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High standard upheld
In "Looking for a slice of the American pie" (THES, July 30), Simon Blackburn makes some inaccurate observations about this year's bachelor of philosophy examination. By claiming that some candidates...
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Points of clarity
I would like to comment on the article "UK caught in the 'degree-sale' crossfire" (THES, August 13) in which I am extensively quoted by your reporter Phil Baty. The quotes attributed to me are...
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Who needs a PhD?
Recent correspondence on the PhD as preparation for an academic career (Letters, THES, August 6 and 13) has rather assumed a necessary link. The PhD is, and should be, a preparation primarily for...
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Audit's reception too dramatic
The article on the Quality Assurance Agency's audit of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama ("Stars fail to shine for a QAA with systems in its eyes", THES, August 13) manages to obscure and...