Master stroke
Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, is a vociferous champion of top-up fees. "Quality comes at a price," he argued in The Guardian this week, and universities must be given autonomy...
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Rabbi rouser
The position of University of Ulster chancellor Rabbi Julia Neuberger is again under strain, after the university refused to confirm it had withdrawn a statement distancing itself from her comments...
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Spare the Rod
Another hotbed of top-up fees enthusiasm may have an incomplete understanding of who's who in higher education finance. "While universities have been expanding, they have had to do so while coping...
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Bang to rights
Has Robin Cook troubled to send David Blunkett and Tessa Blackstone a copy of the international convention on economic, social and cultural rights to which we have all agreed by the United Kingdom's...
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Down to Earth
Is a Godfather-type feud breaking out in the earth sciences? Earlier this week, vandals chucked a brick through the window of the normally placid Geological Society of London. But the truth is...
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Billion-dollar brain
Alumnus to be proud of No 138 must think the UN system is worth supporting, as he is about to hand it $1 billion. In the International Who's Who Ted Turner is billed as American broadcasting...
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Call for equality league
PUBLIC funding for universities should be linked directly to equal opportunities performance data, a senior law lecturer said this week after five years of race discrimination litigation against...
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Green job for Holland
EXETER University vice chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland is to chair an "expert panel" to promote environmental education in colleges and universities, it was announced this week by the Department of...
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SOAS in balancing act
PLANS for an extra 300 studentsbut no additional staff will form the basis of a new business strategy for the School of Oriental and African Studies, writes Phil Baty. London University's SOAS is...
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Cabbies ranked by class
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development Why does a Parisian taxi driver speak with almost exactly the same dialect as a Parisian...
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Culture? You must be joking
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development Language has a large informal element, and linguists impoverish their understanding of...
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A different way to work through college
NICK Vaughn is the first to admit he is not particularly adept with his hands, so learning how to make brooms was one of the hardest things he has had to do in college. But Mr Vaughn, a senior at...
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Kiwis toy with best model
RADICAL plans to change the way New Zealand higher education is funded have been set out in a government green paper published this month. A purchase model, where the government "buys" the places it...
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Plan to train youth jobless angers state leaders
A FEUD has erupted between Australia's federal and state governments over funding vocational education, writes David Bruce. The battle for the moral high ground has captured the interest of daily...
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Dash for more private cash
AUSTRALIAN universities have taken to privatisation with added zeal since the conservative government led by prime minister John Howard swept into office early last year. Severe cuts in federal...