Letter: Impoverishment of student life
I am a graduate in economics, having finished my studies last summer. I could identify with many issues raised in your story ("MPs hear harsh loans truth", THES, February 2), but I feel you have only...
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Letter: Impoverishment of student life (2)
German foreign minister Joscka Fischer, icon of the peaceful 1970s student protests, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP for the French Greens, are caught up in controversy about the "wild days" of student...
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Letter: Impoverishment of student life
Young people are fortunately cleverer than government or Universities UK give them credit for. Many surveys demonstrate that employers demand mainly generic transferable skills, which can be...
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Letter: DNA considerations
Events at Alder Hey Hospital have highlighted the deficiencies in the Human Tissue Act 1961 and in the oversight mechanisms for the collection of tissue and organs for medical research. Health...
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Letter: It's all Thatcher's fault
I agree that we will have to establish whether HE institutes furnish qualifications or teach students to think ("Why I..., THES, January 26). I blame Thatcherite culture for this. In 1995 at King...
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Leader: Lessons in regeneration from Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, Alabama, is, by its own admission, not the likeliest of venues for full membership of the US research elite. But from a standing start in the 1960s, its university has become a...
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Leader: Banning top-up fees no answer to studentpoverty
Something must be done about student poverty, but ruling out top-up fees is not necessarily the right answer. Evidence is mounting of students too hard-up to eat properly, study effectively or even...
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Notts cancer team at risk
One of Nottingham University's leading cancer drug researchers has warned that he could take his research team elsewhere unless the university gives back £3.8 million from the tobacco industry. David...
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Union jubilant as pay talks start
Union leaders are claiming victory in their pay battle with new universities and are set to halt paralysing industrial action. Vice-chancellors have dropped their opposition to minimum national terms...
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Poor students put off university by Ucas forms
Potential students from the poorest families are being turned off university education because of the application process, according to marketing and access staff. "If you imagine going into a car...
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Go to jail or study history, Nazis told
Linz University is to mount a pilot scheme giving former neo-Nazis the chance to study history and sociology in a bid to change their outlook. Around 45 extremist skinheads, who were found guilty of...
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Labour dumps top-up fees in election ploy
Education secretary David Blunkett ended months of speculation this week when he categorically ruled out top-up fees for the duration of the next Parliament, should Labour win the general election....
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Shortage subjects suffering
Newly qualified teachers in shortage subjects such as maths and science are more likely to teach poor lessons, according to a report by Ofsted. Teaching by 16 per cent of maths NQTs and 15 per cent...
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England may fare better than Scots after RAE
English research departments could be better funded than their Scottish counterparts after this year's research assessment exercise. Last week, a board meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council...