Red tape harms student chances
THOUSANDS of students are allegedly dropping out of university in Australia because of red tape and changes in the student support scheme, Austudy. The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee has...
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Danes favour character development
ONLY 36 per cent of Danish sixth-form college pupils studying mathematics, sciences or technical subjects want a natural sciences or technical higher or further education. A survey of the life...
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No inquiry over 'piracy'
AN ITALIAN economist caught up in a welter of plagiarism charges has claimed that newspaper interest in his case was politically motivated because he is close to the government. The Italian Society...
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Purge threatens Spanish reform
SPANISH education minister Esperanza Aguirre has sacked one of her right-hand men, Fernando Tejerina, the secretary of state for universities, research and development. Her decision, stemming from...
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France to unlock war archives
HISTORIANS will finally gain freer access to French archives on the second world war period during which the Vichy government collaborated with the occupying Nazi authorities. Prime minister Lionel...
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Pitfalls of the market
The Dearing report will be greeted as a landmark in the changing history of British higher education, but it also marks a further significant step in a gathering debate about the future role of...
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Abolish that bureaucracy
The problem with Socrates (THES, July 18) is not simply that current arrangements are excessively bureaucratic. From the beginning of the Erasmus scheme, the arrangements have been such as to make it...
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Future analysis, or rhetoric?
As Dearing's dust settles, Roger Brown highlights the need for more research into higher education ONE OF the most striking aspects of the Dearing committee report is the enormous amount of research...
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Distressing observation
I have first-hand experience of the devastating effect that moves and changes have on observatory personnel as I was a temporary Royal Greenwich Observatory employee at the observatory on La Palma...
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Elemental change
It's GOOD to know that Leeds chemistry students will be focussing on the main elements (THES,July 18). Perhaps the rare earths come to light only in postgraduate work? But surely there is a misquote...
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Not making it easier for mums - or dads
Jenny Gristock asks if the needs of students with children are being ignored
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Fee foes smell blood
The proposal to charge students a proportion of the fees for their higher education is a profound mistake (THES, July 25). It enshrines the notion of student as customer, and university as supplier....
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Fee foes smell blood
The rhetoric of the Dearing report cannot be faulted. Its vision statement reads like a religious tract. But what if you don't believe? Do people really want to spend their lives learning? What about...
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Fee foes smell blood
About three months ago, Sir Ron told Japanese and British academics, industrialists and politicians of the communication problems he had experienced in his dealings with Japanese people. He even...
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Fee foes smell blood
Until now people wishing to enter higher education have had a comparatively easy time finding grants for first degrees, and now the next generation is objecting at being called on to find, at most,...