Complaining voices must be heard
Renewed expansion of higher education will mean more students - and more aggrieved students. So it is disappointing that almost two years after the report of the Dearing inquiry, its recommendation...
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Few female inroads
So Peterhouse, long regarded as the most reactionary of Cambridge colleges, has experienced a lightning conversion to the cause of equal opportunities ("The fellows pushing salad revolution", THES,...
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Core concerns
Many thanks to Martin Haywood, chairman of the Association for University and Industry Liaison Officers, for offering guidance to the understandably confused citizens of higher education regarding...
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UK can evaluate itself
On behalf of the UK Evaluation Society, I would like to widen a discussion that began in the British Educational Research Association Newsletter No. 67 of February 1999. The discussion between Peter...
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IT use deserves more thought
I was interested in your report "Software vendor switch 'could save Pounds 10m'" (THES, March 26). I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, whose information technology policy...
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IT use deserves more thought
I applaud the arguments and conclusions in the Joint Information Systems Committee report, Value for Money Considerations in Software Strategies, and endorse the quote from Alan Robiette (who...
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On your blind marks
"Anonymous marking destroys a key element of the university experience: engagement with the lecturers." David Walker's point is repeated in some form as the main pedagogical argument by each of your...
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AoC's glass house
In reply to the Association of Colleges' criticisms of National Union of Students' support for further education students ("NUS votes for greater openness", THES, March 26), the NUS undertakes a wide...
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Help for postgrads
In response to "How to get online job advice" (THES, March 5), I write on behalf of the Postgraduate Students Working Party, which the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services set up in 1997...
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Let's get together
The British Library needs to find creative partners if it is to be useful,says John Ashworth. This summer, when the last of the collections moves into the new St Pancras building, the British Library...
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Why I... believe the government's plans for a right to roam do not go far enough
Marion Shoard is visiting lecturer in environmental planning, University College London. Her latest book, A Right to Roam, is published by Oxford University Press at Pounds 8.99. The key thing that...
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The poor folks back home
Tuition fees and the loss of grants can limit poor students' choice of employment, say Rick Audas and Peter Dolton. Charging tuition fees and phasing out maintenance grants could rob people from...
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British struggle with innovation
Many British firms are struggling with what innovation means despite almost universal recognition that it is critical to making companies and nations more competitive, according to a newly published...
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Money to market the best business ideas
With the Pounds 45 million University Challenge Fund now allocated, successful bidders are fast developing their business plans. Julia Hinde reports. Christmas has come early for 15 university...
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Reversing the brain drain in Spain
Spain is luring scientists back from abroad with temporary contracts but there are not enough jobs. Rebecca Warden reports from Barcelona. Spain has never had so many highly trained scientists...