Party pieces: promises and prescriptions
Labour manifesto Expansion "We will maintain university entry standards while intensifying efforts to extend the huge advantages that a university education confers to able young people from all...
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Hostages to fortune
Labour A second term - Tony Blair, speech on the economy, May 15 "Education will be our number-one micro-economic policy in a second term as it was in our first. Education and lifelong learning must...
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The third way ahead
New Labour's policies have led to real achievements and will deliver more, argues Anthony Giddens. Suppose that a Labour activist, distressed and disillusioned after the electoral defeat in 1992,...
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Unions make claims for more cash
Almost half of all higher education institutions fell into deficit last year, with six universities £5 million or more in the red, according to Association of University Teachers figures. Stepping up...
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Election is still crucial in devolved Scotland
Academic experts are eager to see the turnout, which will reveal whether Scots see the election as "first order", of key importance, or "second order", typically local election status. Most of the...
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'We have a lot more to do'
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone has admitted that the government's widening participation policies have done little so far to increase the numbers of students from poor backgrounds. She...
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Labour pledges NHS university
Higher education is one of Labour's top ten manifesto priorities, underlining Tony Blair's commitment to increase investment in universities and create a National Health university if elected for a...
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Research in tropical animal health
Deadline: 31/08/2001
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Laurie Taylor Column
How many have you got left to do? About 78 methods, 97 theories, 46 semiotics and 26 film studies. And you? Much the same. Did you get stuck in last weekend? I knocked off a couple of dozen theories...
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Letter: Hoops, sticks and Treasury tricks (2)
The main objection to the transparency review is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of separating time spent on research from that spent on teaching. When I read a book or paper I am doing...
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Letter: Nursing grievances (1)
Your article "UK cuts funding for foreign nurses" ( THES , May 11) portrays the issue as being solely about a crisis of staffing in the National Health Service. But there are two even more important...
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Letter: Nursing grievances (2)
One of the main reasons the UK has a shortage of qualified nurses was the Conservative government-induced reduction in the number of nurse training places in the early 1990s. To redress the shortage...
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Letter: Relationship problem
Martin Dodsworth confuses the relationship between the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (Soapbox, THES , May 4). The establishment of the AHRB owed much to the BA's...
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Letter: Novel twist
The photograph accompanying "Red light finds its way to campus" ( THES , May 11) shows phone box cards that extend a number of unusual invitations, notably one from a "model": "Lick me, beat me, call...
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Letter: Great expectations
The report on us was not simply a Higher Education Funding Council for England report (Whistleblowers, THES , May 11). We and our validating university went into the evaluation unaware additional...