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The Chinese ministry of education plans to cut the number of higher education institutions by 10 per cent through mergers by 2003. If everything goes according to plan there will be about 1,800...
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Hot to reward prize pedagogues
WHAT: New systems are needed to find exceptional teachers and reward them. By Hazel Fullerton WHY: High-level research attracts extra funds while the incentive to improve teaching is less obvious....
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Terms of reference
Is there life after Bett? The Bett committee faced a mammoth task in trying to untangle and make sense of higher education's multi-layered and convoluted pay and conditions structures, writes Alan...
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Germany told to get friendly
Hamburg German universities must be more welcoming to foreign students, says a poll by the national student organisation Deutsche Studentenwerk (DSW) and the federal education ministry. Foreign...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Martin Trow warned that British universities should be wary of positive discrimination to correct racial imbalance I agree that positive action is not the way forward if we...
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Striking behaviour
The Association of University Teachers' campaign of "industrial action" is inappropriate. It also appears to be ineffectual. Does anyone believe the strike day to have been a great success? At...
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Is there life after Bett?
The Bett committee report on pay and conditions has been published. Harriet Swain reports its recommendations It was never going to be easy to tackle staff pay and conditions in a diverse sector that...
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Techno fears
The hand-wringing about genetically modified foods technology does not help the debate (Letters, THES, June 11). Vitamin A-containing rice is feasible and meets a need. But is this technology being...
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Worth a Damien?
As a PhD candidate at RMIT University in Melbourne, the article on The Leeds 13 ("No artist is an island", THES, June 11) was of enormous interest. My research project is concerned with "...
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English as a second thought
Frank Furedi describes the frustrations felt by many lecturers faced with increasing numbers of overseas students on undergraduate and postgraduate courses ("Mind your English language", THES, June...
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English as a second thought
Frank Furedi no more than scratches the surface with his claim that administrators keen to recruit fee-paying overseas students to Britain do not put in place programmes designed to support them. For...
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English as a second thought
Three years ago I started an MA in economics at a well-known university in London. As a foreign student I paid substantial fees and joined a class full of fellow "foreigners". My grasp of English was...
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Economic exchange
Steve Fleetwood (Letters, THES, June 18) responds to my debate with Neil Kay by rubbishing economists for viewing firms as profit maximisers. A merit of economics is that it formulates theories with...
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Economic exchange
The exchange between economists David de Meza and Neil Kay (Letters, THES, June 11, 18) contains stuff that is relevant to the world in which we live, but how are most readers supposed to recognise...
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Star Turn
Can games and fun have a place in education? Phil Baty meets a man who thinks so. "Education should be serious fun. As part of the wider educative role, students should be able to try out crazy and...