Letter(3):Real quality versus self-interest
Confidentiality agreements prevent my naming names, but your article on the Russell Group's attempt to see off QAA subject review brings to mind the remarks of an eminent vice-chancellor of a very...
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'This is retaliation, not justice'
America needs to understand how the rest of the world sees it, says Tom Palaima . At times of international crisis, we Americans really need to know who we are, and how what we say and do translates...
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Why I... believe in rewarding brilliance
Imagine the Queen, summoning her barge, sailing down the Thames to the Tower, inspecting the crown jewels and saying to the warden: "I don't like them, throw them in the river." Imagine the vice-...
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Streamline inspection
The Russell Group supports targeted quality assurance, says its chairman Colin Lucas . A few days before last week's lead article concerning the Quality Assurance Agency appeared in The THES, I had...
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Councils fear shortage of postgraduates
Research councils want more government funds to attract postgraduate students from other European Union countries amid growing evidence of a domestic recruitment slump. The research councils and...
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Warning over risk of on-job training
The number of graduates gaining teaching qualifications by working in schools instead of attending university courses is to be doubled under government plans announced this week. But academics fear...
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Both sides in copyright tribunal expecting victory
As the tribunal hearing to decide the future of the copyright agreement between universities and publishers closed last week, both sides were confident of a win. Universities UK brought the case,...
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Skilled student begs for asylum
A talented Russian asylum-seeker's dream place at medical school hangs in the balance this week amid last-ditch attempts to prevent her deportation. Ann Brodski, whose half-Jewish family came to...
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AoC pay promise staves off strike
Further education college chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have come to an 11th-hour agreement over pay to avoid a two-day strike next week. Both sides are hoping that the deal will release an...
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Libraries feel pinch as readers make demands
University library budgets are being stretched further than ever with users expecting libraries to subscribe to both print and electronic versions of journals. Research from the Ingenta Institute,...
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News in brief
Daresbury-Rutherford pact reaps cash benefit Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton laboratories are to benefit from the latest Faraday Partnership. Some £200,000 of annual government funding will go...
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Analysis: Great idea - shame about the cold feet
The government is relying on the foundation degree to meet its participation targets, so why has the degree had so little publicity? Tony Tysome reports. The foundation degree, the United Kingdom's "...
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Europe set to put the first man on Mars
The first flag planted by man in the parched red soil of Mars could bear Europe's ring of yellow stars. The ambitious landing has been suggested by scientists as a follow-up to carrying samples of...
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For the record
AHRB cuts loose from HEFC The Arts and Humanities Research Board has been incorporated as a public company and can now employ its own staff and run its accounts separately from the Higher Education...
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World watch
Valledupar A former Colombian culture minister, Consuelo Araujo, has been kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces leftist guerrilla group. Mrs Araujo, whose husband is the procurator-...