Urban waste reborn as Sorbonne Mark II
A new Latin Quarter is rising from urban wasteland in the southeast corner of Paris, with a new Sorbonne for 40,000 students at its centre. After a decade marked by financial and economic setbacks,...
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Game plan to boost local jobs
Students at the University of Abertay Dundee are being given the chance to develop the next Lara Croft or Earthworm Jim with the help of the university and Scottish Enterprise Tayside (Set). The...
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Investment in miracle material
A university-enterprise partnership has been launched to develop innovative technology based on the "miracle material" gallium nitride. Gallium nitride has been described as the most important new...
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Lending innovation from online library
The national libraries of Australia and New Zealand, along with 15 Australian universities and two state libraries, have launched an online local inter-lending document delivery administration system...
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Regeneration package inspires new masters
A Pounds 40 million government package aimed at improving parts of North Staffordshire has prompted Staffordshire University to launch an MA programme in local economic regeneration. Rick Ball, one...
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Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off
In the fifth of our series on universities in the 21st century, Sarah Fitzpatrick argues that the time is right for institutionsin the United Kingdom to be free to decide what to charge. It has never...
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Is it time we abolished the GCSE?
This year's exam results and clearing season has been marked by a new surge of interest in changing the school year to allow university admissions to be made on the basis of known results, not...
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Salary or pin money
The real reason for the underpayment of academic women is that very few men believe that women have to earn their own living ("Sister of 21st century", THES, August 4). There is a general presumption...
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National bargaining
Chris Kaufman makes a great deal of sense ("Let the pay fight begin", Soapbox, THES, August 11). An objective of any responsible union must be to maintain as much national bargaining as possible. One...
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National bargaining
I have sympathy with college principals and support staff who point out that their pay is a long way off the fat-cat league ("Salaries too low to attract top dogs", THES, August 25). I would have...
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Ethics and plagiarism
Plagiarism and the concepts of intellectual property are complex issues that baffle some academics as well as students. Frank Furedi suggested it should be tackled with "an intellectual rather than a...
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Workers are stakeholders too
I was cheered and saddened by the article "Overhaul decreed for a wasteful system" (THES, August 25). It was cheering to read that the Higher Education Funding Council for England had at last...
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Workers are stakeholders too
Hefce has chosen the wrong moment to publish its policy statement on diversity in higher education ("Watchdog culture scares off risk-takers", THES, August 11). In the same week that Hefce told...
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Choice by gender
I am not sure which is the more disturbing, the photograph of the young Pakistani mother and her twins, where the boy is four times the size of his starving sister, or the framework of understanding...
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Union role at Derby
Geoffrey Alderman needs to get his facts straight before criticising the Quality Assurance Agency's investigation into franchising standards at the University of Derby (Letters, THES, August 25). Had...