Give us freedom to exploit our expertise
Higher education's role in the economic and social well-being of Britain should be recognised and underpinned, says Marilyn Wedgwood HIGHER education has always had an important implicit role in...
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Bolton at the door
Education secretary David Blunkett will shortly meet senior staff from Bolton Institute to consider awarding it a university title. Very little has been done to poll and understand views at the...
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Short-term jobs battle
MARTIN Cloonan is to be commended for seeking to protect employees' rights (THES, May 8), but there is surely a duty on university employers and others to protect taxpayers' and donors' right to know...
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Labelled in error
IN A generally thoughtful and well-informed review of my book, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (THES, April 17), Neil Gregor takes me to task for sins I have not committed. First,...
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The nanny assessors
MARTIN Brady misses the point of the argument about the Quality Assessment Agency (Letters, THES, May 1). Universities are not objecting to accountability but to inappropriate interference in a...
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The nanny assessors
I AGREE with the views of Roger Brown (THES, May 8) on the new Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Over-auditing, apart from being an unnecessary overhead, also lowers...
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The nanny assessors
TALKS on draft QAA proposals for assessing teaching quality have failed to point out that the result will be a further Gadarene rush to neglect teaching and prioritise research. The proposals offer...
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Students in distress
IDENTIFYING vulnerable students to prevent suicides would be difficult to translate into practice given the unwillingness of individuals to be singled out as suffering from mental health problems (...
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When outsiders take over the IT
DURHAM University's motivation in outsourcing its computing services (THES, May 1) and the knock-on effect are of concern to the Universities and Colleges Information Services Association. The stated...
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Negative vibes from positive action
Women are likely to take up 80 per cent of the 1.6 million new jobs projected by the year 2006 in the United Kingdom. At present, women form almost half of the workforce although on average they are...
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Military's might in Indonesia
The deaths of six students in Indonesia this week is a tragic confirmation of the dismay and foreboding felt by many observers at the mounting student protests and demonstrations against President...
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A system in danger of overload
Is the PhD viva outmoded? Alison Utley talks to one candidate who thinks it destroyed his career, and (below) Ewan Gillon calls for a radical overhaul of the entire Phd process In recent weeks there...
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Council boosts biology labs
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council thinks it has found a novel and relatively inexpensive approach to the long-standing problem of setting up new centres for big science. It...
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Doubts over Pounds 50m seed cash
A leading venture company has questioned the way the new University Challenge Fund - announced in the budget to provide Pounds 50 million of seed capital for universities - is to be distributed....
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...