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  1. Appointments

    HEFCE Barbara Stephens, director of operations, West Cumbria Development Agency, has been appointed to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for...

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  2. Power plays and sister acts

    David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...

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  4. Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory

    Darwinism is a theory of evolution based upon inherited variations in organisms and natural selection of fitter variants to produce species adapted to their habitats. Twentieth-century biology added...

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  5. Adrift in a qualifications sea

    Ros Ollin argues for a regulatory anchor to keep NVQs steady. The report, Learning to Succeed after Sixteen, by the National Commission on Education reiterates the need for schools, colleges and...

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  6. Party-less but singing at Queen's

    Under the heading "Anthem row rumbles on" (THES, May 5) I found to my surprise that I was, "in fact" a member of the "middle-of-the road Alliance Party". I am quite sure that the Alliance party...

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  7. All you need is love

    Claire Sanders reports on some blunt advice from Europe, particularly the Netherlands. As the assessors from the funding council and the auditors from the quality council poke and probe their way...

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  8. Shephard raid that went wrong

    I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...

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  9. Build on expertise of bodies

    It is to be hoped that the subtle and sensitive negotiations aiming to streamline the national approach to quality assurance are concluded quickly, and in such a way as to minimise the expenditure of...

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  10. Students set their pace on funding policy

    May Day saw the NUS release details of its latest student hardship survey. The survey found that one in three students actually miss meals because of hardship; one in four consider dropping out...

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  11. Students set their pace on funding policy

    I was dismayed to read your front-page story "Follow my Labour" (THES, May 5). Not only are issues in the article confused, I am inclined to believe that the text was conveniently put together to fit...

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  12. Pet theories in the lab

    To begin to "prove" his radical ideas, one wonders if Rupert Sheldrake ("Dogmas and pet theories", THES, May 5) made a bid for an experiment in the recent series of experiments performed in the "...

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  13. Neglected and patronised

    The celebration of adult learners' week next week, and VE Day this week, are well-timed. The generation that fought the Second World War and then voted in a Labour government and a welfare state are...

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  14. The four beneficiaries who must pay

    Funding is at the heart of the debate on the future of higher education. Lecturer's leader David Triesman, is right to say that new sources of funding have to be found to enable the system to expand...

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  15. Endangered genes go to the bank

    Mounting anger and frustration at the lack of progress in pay talks has brought staff at Victoria University of Wellington to the brink of what could be New Zealand's first academic strike. The...

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