Universities for what?
The few clues as to how Sir Ron Dearing expects his forthcoming review of UK higher education to shape up include strong indications that he will be looking to see what contribution new technologies...
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Labour group deserts student interests
National Union of Students president Jim Murphy has done his utmost to undermine the NUS policy of free education policy over the past year. And at the annual conference in Blackpool last week, he...
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Time for a new policy
Richard Clogg's article on Cambridge University Press (THES, March 29) raises questions about the consultations made in the course of rejecting Dr Karakasidou's manuscript. These consultations were...
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Media dons spread the word
In a recent editorial ( THES, March 15) the view was given that genetic research must not be reported in a vacuum and that different disciplines rarely met to discuss their work. The debate about...
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How to catch a cultural cold
I am interested that the director of the British Council in Dubai believes he is fighting a "battle" against the United States for a "market" there, and that he hopes to be more "aggressive in...
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No desire for single union
John Akker (THES, March 29) seems to have got himself caught in a logical cleft stick. On the one hand he argues for a single educational union but wishes it to be confined to postschool education....
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Wise incomprehension
Colin McGinn (THES, April 5) believes that "the only way to avoid being checkmated by consciousness is to assume you do not understand it". He means: what is not understood is that, although we all...
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Intelligence contested
Mono-savants like Christopher, (THES, March 29) show very specialised, narrow abilities, low on abstract reasoning and linked to intense practice. Christopher may shed light on language learning, but...
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On the wrong road to Malay
Bill Watson bemoans the arrogance displayed by British academics and the business community towards Malaysia. When the prime minister of Malaysia speaks British business executives listen nervously,...
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Back to Slovak future
Universities the world over have their own problems, worries and joys. In Slovakia we not only have to tackle financial problems (who hasn't?) but also have to live under the threat of losing...
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Commonwealth trips on red tape
Whenever I meet fellow Commonwealth vice chancellors, as happened recently at the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Malta, I feel humbled by the severity of the problems faced by...
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Hoodolatory: history, myth and Mr R. Hood
Was the green-hosed outlaw really out there? asks Stephen Knight. Robin Hood, according to the old stories, took money at arrow-point from travellers in Sherwood Forest. The Nottingham tourist...
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It probably won't be you
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains why the National Lottery will almost certainly be won by somebody else. As a mathematician I have an ambivalent attitude towards that instant British institution,...
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Why do Britain's have-nots have less?
Tony Atkinson deplores the UK's record on income distribution and the relative neglect of the problem by economists. Income inequality has increased more sharply in the United Kingdom in the 1980s...
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Loans change
Ken Young, chairman of the Students Loans Company, is to leave in July after four years. Colin Ward was recently promoted to chief executive.