A hard look in the gift horse's mouth
Next Tuesday Oxford University will decide whether to agree to the terms on which Wafiq Said's donation for the management school depend (letters, page 13). The argument is partly about the use of...
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Keep external degrees an internal affair
Just how transferable is a university degree course? In the latest issue of The Manager, Alistair Somerville Ford, chief executive of the Institute of Commercial Management, tells the story of Onn...
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If they don't fit then fix them
Recently one of us, on asking to see a thesis, was told: "We don't let out MSc reports if the work is sponsored without permission of the sponsors. (Name of company) are very tight. I did publish...
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The golden irretrievable
Stop harking back to a non-existent golden age, urges Geoffrey Alderman. To foil the nationalisers the sector must self-regulate on standards without delay.. Standards now top everyone's agenda. As...
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The hand of God
Manfredi La Manna's comments on Keith Ward (THES, October 18) display a serious lack of understanding of the role of academic theology and therefore require some correction. Non-denominational,...
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The hand of God
Keith Ward's article and the accompanying book review (THES, October 11) made sad reading. It seems that the science-and-religion debate is still being carried out in terms of "Did God create the...
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Labour's cuts fight
Your editorial (THES, October 25) arrived at the absurd conclusion that the Labour party must be held responsible for whatever cuts to higher education expenditure are made or confirmed in the...
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Labour's cuts fight
Your editorial was amusingly wrong in suggesting that academics at the London School of Economics have "backed off" from top-up fees in response to pressure from Labour governors. There is no backing...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
Valentine Cunningham's argument ("Cash for Colleges", THES, October 25) is a dangerous one which suggests that universities should turn their back on some types of external funding although they have...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
I hope I was not alone in finding Valentine Cunningham's article intellectually shallow and socially rather offensive. I found it particularly strange that a teacher of English would hint that...
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Back to Plowden
You report (THES, October 25) Sir Ron Dearing's appeal to universities to "set up units in working-class estates" to help to "transmit common standards of citizenship to excluded communities". This...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Brighton. Another "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging...
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Miracles are our business
A few days ago I strolled into the office of one my best friends, an economist. France's unemployment rate for the past month had been made public that very morning, and widely commented upon. I...
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Home View
Universities have always been ambivalent about whether they are local institutions. Most seem detached from their surroundings in the spirit of the ivory tower, and the trend to build universities on...
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A fugitive from the pigeonhole
John Davies talks to Bernard Williams, the philosopher who once advised governments and married a minister and who has just retired from Oxford. At first, there is a problem about interviewing...