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  1. Tuition fees are not the end of the story

    In 1984, when the National Union of Students presented its annual grant claim to the minister for higher education, I learnt the best political lesson of my life. As leader of the delegation, backed...

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  2. Loose change

    Tony Blair said in Parliament on Wednesday that Dearing provides the way ahead "for further education." But elsewhere, there was no doubt what it was about - money. So central is the finance chapter...

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  3. Appointments

    Manchester Metropolitan Barry Plumb, professor, pro vice chancellor and dean of the faculty of science and engineering, has been appointed academic director from September 1997; Richard Moody, former...

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  4. Trust me, I'm an MP

    They may be missing Neil Hamilton, but MPs are careful to guard their collective public reputation. The best laugh of the Dearing debate came when Liberal Donald Gorrie complained the press had seen...

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  5. Blunkett stitch-up

    The Government has been assiduously promoting its spin on Dearing, but blew things badly on launch day by its treatment of the education press. It gave them David Blunkett's statement on the report...

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  6. Shirley not?

    But Sir Ron did not have to go to the trouble of memorising his hundreds of paragraphs and conclusions. At the launch meeting for "stakeholders" he summoned the details with one word - "Shirley"....

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  7. Ring leader

    Proof positive that Scottish higher education is in dire financial straits. Paul Corrigan, new president of St Andrews University students' association, was to be in London for the Dearing launch,...

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  8. Barr to popularity

    Even farther afield is Nick Barr, London School of Economics expert on education finance, whose views Dearing sought. He is in Australia advising on reform of the HECS student finance scheme, admired...

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  9. Volume growth

    The university sector may have grown, but be thankful reports on it are growing in price and size a little more slowly. Dearing costs Pounds 135, a little more after inflation than Robbins in 1963....

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  10. Degrees go Ron and on

    Alumnus to be proud of no 117 is, to your amazement, Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, who can boast nine degrees. Only one, in economics from the University of Hull, was secured by the conventional route....

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  11. Howells unveils tracking device

    RIGOROUS ways to "identify and track" youngsters' education are being explored by the Government, including plans to compile data on students' progress through higher education, which may be used to...

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  12. A point on acupuncture

    The Government has long been urging complementary therapy organisations to "get their house in order" (THES, July 11). The British Acupuncture Accreditation Board was established in 1990 to accredit...

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  13. First impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from an emigre millenary: "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the...

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