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On p50 (THES, February 23) you had an ad that began with the words "BBSRC EPSRC ESRC MRC NERC PPARC DENI HEFCE HEFCW SHEFC". On p51 you had a Linguaphone ad that said "tick the language you want to...
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Wrong note on great music
Malcolm Miller has missed the point of my article in Early Music (THES, 23 February). "Great" music becomes great and stays great not "transcendentally" (his theory) but consensually: if enough of...
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Unreasonable liberty taking
As Martha Nussbaum rightly notes (THES, January 26), some feminists have in recent years sought to challenge liberal emphases on individualism, objectivism and reason. She is also correct in her...
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Drawn short
Maureen Cox (THES, February 23) highlighted the general view that Chinese children's drawings are better than those of our own children. Better usually means the greater similarity of the subject to...
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NVQs marked 'export to Mexico'
We would like to point out to your correspondent Terry Hyland (THES, February 16) that the National Council for Vocational Qualifications welcomes the reports and studies which provide a critique of...
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A mine of solutions for Solomon
The Dearing committee's task is to cull the best ideas from the great debate on higher education, not to dream up something new, argues Frank Gould (below). Nigel Forman (right) adds that new private...
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Dearing Inquiry
Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education gets under way just after Easter and will report in the summer of 1997. What evidence do you think he should consider? Who should sit on his committee?...
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Pre-poll lobby for more cash
Australia's vice chancellors, academics and students have united in demanding the next federal government take immediate action to avert a crisis in higher education. The vice chancellors' committee...
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Latin lovers on their last legs
If what Rome sexologist Chiara Simonelli says is true, the old myth of the carefree and indefatigable Latin lover and of his passionately feminine counterpart is on its last legs. As a researcher in...
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Student intake up in east Germany
About 4,000 first-year students enroled in German higher education last year, according to a survey by Germany's Rectors' Conference, the HRK. This is roughly the same number as last year, and does...
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Danes squabble over research
A disagreement among the parties forming Denmark's coalition government has slowed down work on reshaping research. Research minister Frank Jensen had proposed a bill to reduce the six single...
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Accent on the negative confuses joint proposals
We have no wish to add fuel to the fire, but the letter from Natfhe's president and higher education chair (THES, February 23) is the second time the Association of University Teachers' academic-...
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Accent on the negative confuses joint proposals
I was greatly saddened by the negative, confrontational and confused tone of the Natfhe responses to the Association of University Teachers' proposals for joint membership (THES, February 23). The...
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Arbitrary? Anything but
Declan Cushley describes pre-admission aptitude tests for intending lawyers which we use in Northern Ireland as "arbitrary" (THES, February 16). Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe...
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Dearing's power of distraction
Today the reason why the Government has felt it necessary to set up the Dearing inquiry into higher education becomes evident in hard numbers. Virtually no institution of higher education in England...