Red faces over election tactics
The New Zealand Labour Party's hopes of hanging on to power in last week's general election may have been dashed when its grand gesture of abolishing interest payments on student loans lost some of...
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Genocide finally gets scholarly inquest
Despite death threats, two postponements and the presence of hundreds of protesters, an academic conference on the mass killings of Armenians living in Turkey in 1915 went ahead under heavy police...
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Debt up but defaults down
Fewer American students are defaulting on loans despite increased indebtedness. The student loan default rate fell to 4.5 per cent in 2003, the latest year for which the figure is available,...
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Make no mistake, the QAA will tell it like it is
Vice-chancellors take note, quality assurance has come of age - it is no longer a beast of burden, says Peter Williams Whatever was on the minds of vice-chancellors when they met for their...
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Alison Wolf
Learning in the 21st century was predicted to change radically, but students still want the age-old university model It is always fascinating to read earlier writers' predictions and compare them...
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Indecent proposal
Lord Kinnock, chair of the British Council, knows a bit about marketing. While chairing a meeting with Universities UK he warned that the sector would have to think hard about how to lure overseas...
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Cutting it fine
The stopwatches were out to time Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's appearance at a reception hosted by the Association of University Teachers, Natfhe and the National Union of Students at Labour's...
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Stable mates?
Meanwhile Ms Kelly's last-minute failure to attend a fringe meeting on pupil testing put Barry Sheerman, chair of the Parliamentary Education and Skills Select Committee, in a spot of bother. He'd...
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Follow your star
Any academic knows that timetabling is crucial. It's unfortunate, then, that UUK's conference meeting to discuss the implications of visa charges on international recruitment on Tuesday at a fringe...
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Liberal with good advice
One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic...
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Christopher Ricks: 'Judas!' Did they hope he'd hang himself?
"Don't Look Back?" Do Look Back, but Don't Look Only Back. Look up, look up - seek your Maker. Â Martin Scorsese, like Bob Dylan, is one heaven of a maker. Dylan till 1966: this was to be the heart...
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Why I defend the right of Hizb ut-Tahrir to speak at Middlesex University
Last week I was suspended from Middlesex University. I was told I could not enter the premises, nor talk to staff or students at the university. I was escorted off the premises by security. Why?...
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A cabinet reshuffle
As Helen Taylor hands over her files to a new head of school, she reflects on life, death and wedlock It's that time of year when the headships of schools revolve and so, after five years, I am...
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Set workers study targets
UK business and academe must band together to maintain levels of key skills, says Helen Connor If the UK is to be internationally competitive, we have to increase the skills of our existing workforce...
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Examine ideas, not exam skills
Coursework may be the plodder's option, says Maria Misra, but it can also favour originality over the glib elan that exams too often reward A recent study has claimed that plodder students most...