Ground rules
As the common longing for a firm moral bedrock intensifies, will Andrea Dworkin's black-and-white brand of political feminism be revived? Jennifer Wallace finds her in optimistic mood. Gascoigne...
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A yoke that's wearing thin
The link may go back a long way but Britain protests too much about its 'special relationship' with the United States, says Kathleen Burk. Anglo-American relations have attracted an incrustation of...
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Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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Stand by your texts
As Valentine Cunningham stands shivering in the harsh winds blowing through academia, what exactly fires his resolve to stick to his calling? When thousands of higher education teachers take to the...
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The shock will hit the new
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. An estimated 3,000 jobs have been lost in universities this year, writes Alan Thomson....
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Case study
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. Sheffield College has lost about 100 teaching and 50 support staff out of 2,000, with the...
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Younger heads will roll
The Scottish tertiary sector looks likely to have to make many more compulsory redundancies than it has to date, writes Scottish editor Olga Wojtas. Although the sector has suffered only one...
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Warning from Dearing
Universities and colleges must grapple with difficult questions over degree standards and the future of the honours degree classification system, Sir Ron Dearing has warned. They must be clearer...
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Ex-polys challenge standards
The popular notion that "old" universities tend to out-perform the "new" in the quality of their courses was challenged this week with the publication of eight funding council assessment overview...
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Oxbridge upstaged in US list
An American-based institute has devised a new way of assessing the research strengths of United Kingdom universities which upstages Oxbridge. The Institute of Scientific Information, a body which...
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Designers must get back to basics, says RSA
Basic skills in drawing, presentation and research among design students are deteriorating because of the rapid expansion in higher education, according to the Royal Society of Arts. The RSA says...
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Clinical chats in line of GPs' fire
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLORS using "talk therapy" in clinics are giving their profession a bad name and should concentrate on more...
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Stroke victims swallow again
Tens of thousands of people who lose the ability to swallow after a stroke could soon be eating and drinking freely again thanks to a medical breakthrough at Manchester University. Researchers at...
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Unions cast doubt on French reforms
FRENCH student and academic union leaders are trying to agree a common stand on their involvement in four government working parties set up to introduce university reform. The four committees, on...
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Einstein's ties with Hebrew centre
A UNIQUE selection of Albert Einstein's "scientific and non-scientific personal papers" has been on display at the Hebrew University's National Library in Israel before being auctioned at Christie's...