Who is in the neutral corner?
The British have waited years for a Food Standards Agency, enduring health scares related to E. coli, BSE and salmonella in the interim. No sooner is it on its way than the Department of Trade and...
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Join local initiative to global outlook
Devolution and the arrival of the Scottish Parliament can be expected to enhance the distinctiveness of Scottish higher education as universities and colleges necessarily turn their attention to...
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Bolognese flavoured corruption
Reforms in Italy's system of allocating university posts have already been condemned as a step back in time. Domenico Pacitti tells what happened to him Higher education minister Luigi Berlinguer's...
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Pots of gold at the end of regional rainbows
Rich rewards are waiting for higher education institutions that plug into industry and play their part fully in regional development, says Richard Brown Involving higher education more in local...
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In freedom's shadow
The Forum for the Future's HE21 Project encourages the higher education sector to play its part in shifting society to a more sustainable path. Jack Pridham (Letters, THES, July 3) wrongly implies...
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Scottish scapegoats
The controversy over the "Scottish anomaly" will not go away, much as the government would like it to. It continues to fail to justify its policy, because the policy is unjustifiable. Ministers, Tony...
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Let's teach teaching
It is surely astonishing that Lewis Elton (The THES, June 26) regards innovation by trial and error (i.e. "innovations (that) need refining over time") as the route to excellence in teaching, when it...
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Mergers and waste
I was surprised to read in your leader on mergers that the Further Education Funding Council's decision to reject the proposed Hertfordshire University-Dunstable College merger might have been on "...
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Assessing degrees
I am afraid that Bruce Macfarlane's explanation of the rise of the good degree in the 1980s (Letters, THES, July 3), that it could be due to students working harder, is just one of several extremely...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
One of my teenage daughters pointed out to me a logical flaw in your universities' league table of proportions of female professors (The THES, July 3). For each university, you should have divided...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
The article on women professors in our universities made depressing reading. Furthermore, the figures you provided for Portsmouth are inaccurate. At Portsmouth we do not have five female professors...
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King's acts with justice
My attention has just been drawn to a report in The THES ("Don't shut out police, report says", June 12) in which Phil Baty claims that, at King's College, London in 1994, "an internal inquiry that...
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Export quality
Their Lordships are quite right ("Lead way to Europe, peers tell v-cs", The THES, July 3): studying abroad is deeply educational in the full sense of the term. Thus it is right to encourage British...
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War studies beachhead
Re: Poppleton's Serbian War Studies. Please let potential course participants know (Laurie Taylor, THES, June 26) that they can enrol for the diploma in languages for military purposes (Serbian). We...
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Career prospects need unblocking
If you are on the staff of a university, how good are your career prospects? According to the Dearing report, they are pretty healthy. The number of senior academic jobs is on the increase. Career...