Diversity - but only up to a point
Recognition that present policies may be distorting higher education's activities comes in this week's policy statement on diversity from the English funding council. This is most welcome and, taken...
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Where's the money for increased access?
In the second of our series of articles about universities in the 21st century, Gordon Marsden argues that top-up fees are not the only option if we want to sustain the expansion of higher education...
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Black and in the red
Karen MacGregor is right to suggest lack of clarity on funding is the greatest weakness of the report on the future of South African universities (International news, THES, July 28). The present...
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Mother nurture?
Anne Sebba's "Should you wine and dine them or just correct their spelling?" (THES, August 4) failed to take a serious subject seriously and, more importantly, it played a dangerous gender game. If...
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Academic alumni must cough up
Norman Cantor's letter (THES, August 4) is a useful corrective in the comparisons between US and UK higher education. There is little question that we are heading towards a system where fees will...
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Hooray for scientists
Colin Blakemore weighs in with the old myth that the British public think science is a bad thing ("What experts say about the science white paper", THES, August 4). In the same issue were the results...
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Female blonding
As a redhead rather than a "TV blonde", I would like to assure Angela McRobbie ("Sister of the 21st century", THES, August 4) that I continue to use my radical feminist "female energy" to maintain...
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Ethical investing
G. P. H. L. De Silva asks "what is unethical about arms production and trade?" (Letters, THES, August 4). Sadly arms manufacturers do not care whether or not their products are used by repressive...
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Casualisation charter
Readers will not fall for the spin Tom Wilson tries to place on Natfhe's endorsement of the employers' "Guide to good practice in fixed term and casual employment" (Letters, THES, August 4). The...
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Subjects and benefits
Madsen Pirie wants to highlight "individual" benefit of a university education while also recognising "social" benefit ("Institutions will finally enjoy era of autonomy", THES, August 4). But both...
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Nurses: graduate entry
Your excellent coverage of the National Health Service Plan (Analysis and leader, THES, August 4) and its implications for higher education did not go far enough. Universities are well able to...
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Run-ins over consent
One of the lessons from Susan Reverby's discussion of the Tuskegee experiment ("We're sorry we lied and let you die", THES, August 4) is the importance of informed consent. She is surely right in...
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Taking students to market
Access for all is not about providing training schemes on the cheap, argues Lee Sergent. Over the past 20 years, the principle of free education has been under attack. One of the main worries about...
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More Scots plump for college
The number of young Scots involved in post-school education rose substantially between 1988-89 and 1998-99. The proportion of 16 to 21-year-olds in further education increased from 15 per cent to 19...
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Why we...do not tell people that we study at Cambridge
Cambridge students. They are appearing in How to Avoid Huge Ships, produced by Cambridge student James Williams, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Venue: The Gilded Balloon at 6pm, until August 28 More than...