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  1. The black hole in science ranks

    British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto. Universities pay service to their paucity in technical disciplines with just a few access courses Look around any...

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  2. Roots of the Ivy League

    Stanford University is not an Ivy League university (THES, January 17). The Ivy League traces its origins to 1943 when the presidents of eight elite universities on East Coast of the United States...

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  3. Terms of adjustment

    Obviously the University and Colleges Employers' Association's most recent offer of a 2.9 per cent pay increase over each of two years to academic staff unions (THES, January 17) is a considerable...

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  4. Terms of adjustment

    With regard to Christine Cheesman's letter (THES, January 17), I would agree that the Government should be prepared to take responsibility for the cost of re-organisation. The proposals to change the...

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  5. Terms of adjustment

    Alan Thomson reports (THES, January 10) that Steve Rouse estimates that a ban on waiver clauses could cost the sector around Pounds 15 million a year. This is certainly a massive exaggeration. There...

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  6. Consumer vulture culture

    It was interesting to read two separate articles on transferable skills in the workplace (THES, January 17) but neither of them really addressed the issue of what the student thinks they get out of...

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  7. Consumer vulture culture

    I would like to say how much I agree with Andrew Marks's observations and critique of the current situation in higher education (THES, January 17). I am 32 and have been a full-time lecturer for...

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  8. Consumer vulture culture

    Is it not rather disturbing to find Jonathan Brill, who advocates a universal "employability test" in which he admits he has an interest, using inaccurate information as evidence of the sort of...

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  9. Yanked purse string

    Jon Marcus allows the "overseas study costs no more" myth to continue (THES, January 17). Perhaps administrators and academics from United States overseas programmes who come to the United Kingdom...

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  10. Sell your body bits

    Perhaps there is an easy way to avoid the risk of transferred animal diseases while saving money and the lives of those who die while awaiting organ transplants (THES, January 17).A very small...

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  11. Take a bet on Bolton

    You report that Gillian Shephard has asked the Privy Council to speed up the process of conferring university status on Bolton Institute (THES, January 3). Worthy as Bolton is, this represents a...

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  12. A member's reminder

    Contrary to your report on my meeting with Sir Ron Dearing to discuss the European Business School London's proposals on how the independent sector can help in the future structure of higher...

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  13. Don's diary

    MONDAY Am in the masochistic throes of completing a book to get to my publishers by Friday, writing two conference presentations to give tomorrow and wondering how to tell my research students that...

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  14. Poll pundits predict without perspective

    WE ARE in the heat of the pre-election period. You can almost smell the cordite as trench warfare takes shape. The parties are hurling their ammunition of propaganda and statistics at each other with...

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  15. English's hold on Asians

    REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...

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