Diversity or lingua franca for Europe?
Four out of five people questioned in a straw poll carried out by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, do not believe that diversity in languages is...
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Offensive 'spam' plagues colleges
Britain's universities are being targeted by computer junk mailers known as "spammers" who trade on the good reputations of academic institutions to peddle porn. The problem is reaching epidemic...
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Latest international news
Rector charged with fraud The rector of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been charged with breach of public official duties, mishandling of public money and fraud after the...
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Latest UK news
NUS rejects top-up option The National Union of Students is dismayed that vice-chancellors are considering top-up fees as a possible income stream for higher education. The NUS said that higher fees...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Ministers are considering a further increase in the premium paid to universities for each student they recruit from a poor neighbourhood " - THES , February 16. Hello. Ah yes, hello indeed. Am I...
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Letter: Bean-counterclaims
We recently had a letter published (THES, January 26) that criticised the transparency review being carried out in the sector. This is the scheme whereby staff have to keep 24-hour diaries of their...
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Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bases its new partnership scheme on teaching quality assessment, the research assessment exercise, entry standards and student employability ("Surveying...
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Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
As a member of the Partnerships and Accreditation Board (PAB) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, I have consistently questioned and opposed three of the four threshold standards adopted...
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Letter: Ditch casual disregard
Chris Kynch (Soapbox, THES, February 9) is right to urge action to help casualised staff. All too often teaching quality is maintained only at the expense of grossly overworked part-time staff, and...
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Letter: Figure fetishes
Howard Allen implies that if teaching is effective, distributions of grades should be heavily skewed towards firsts and upper seconds (Teaching, THES, February 9). For too long, fetishes have been...
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Letter: Janet and adverts
Following Charles Crook's stimulating article ("Spare us logo land", THES, February 2) readers may be interested to know that the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http:///www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) is...
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Letter: Blooming marvellous
I note that the Academie Francaise has just elected its third woman member since the male monopoly was broken 20 years ago, (Worldwatch, THES, February 16). Given that members are traditionally...
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Letter: Give us a bit of credit
G. R. Evans describes the Schneider-Ross report on Cambridge's equality audit as damning (Letters, THES, February 2). Yes, the report pulls no punches in identifying weaknesses and issues that need...
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Letter: God vs goddess
So, the very serious Niall Ferguson laments a society in which "people pay more attention to the words of Nigella Lawson than to those of the archbishop of Canterbury" ("Want truth? Just follow the...