Devaluation hits students
AUSTRALIAN universities fear that the currency crisis in southeast Asia could hit the number of fee-paying students studying here. Evidence from their recruiting officials in Indonesia, Malaysia, the...
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Asians praise British quality
AN AUSTRALIAN survey of students in six Asian countries has found that they rank universities in the United Kingdom highest in terms of course standards and recognition of qualifications, writes...
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Tibetan culture 'live and kicking'
SINCE the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched into Lhasa in 1951, the worldwide Tibetan movement has campaigned vigorously about the destruction of the country and culture. But a meeting of...
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Deepest cut for medicine
THIS summer Glasgow University received an "excellent" rating for its medical course from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The grading was on the basis of the faculty's efforts to...
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Indian summer of discontent
IT HAS often been said that Britain and India share a special, love-hate relationship. Recent events have shown that it is still very much alive and kicking, and have reminded both countries of how...
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Finding a cure for a limping system
The week after a scientist at the Medical Research Council won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, it is back to Earth with a bump for British medical research and education. Research is losing out on...
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Let us keep a sense of proportion
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studying science and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Two-plus-two step for physics, maths and friends
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studying science and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Turkey's deepening divides
A SOCIOLOGIST acquaintance at Boghazi University tells me a contemporary Turkish joke: "Our country's application for entrance to the European Union continues to be denied, but now at least Istanbul...
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Spotlight on science
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studyingscience and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Speaking about medical diversity
YOUR opinion column (THES, October 10) rightly raises some concerns about the transfer of funding for students following "medical subjects" from the Department for Education and Employment to the...
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Republican values
IN HER article (THES, October 17) Stella Hughes highlights the split among French academics over the question of immigration without giving a fair picture of the "republicanists'" position. A summary...
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Balancing the equation
THE debate over lifelong learning (THES, October 10) appears to assume that reconciling the diverse interests of individuals, employers and society at large can all be simply subsumed into the single...
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Balancing the equation
AS WE await publication of the government's white paper on lifelong learning and consider the proper contribution to it of colleges and universities, I do hope the debate will not be conducted by...
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Cultural cold wars
ARTHUR Marwick writes (THES, October 17) that "postmodernism" is based on the Marxist assumption that we live in the bad bourgeois society in which all knowledge is constructed to preserve bourgeois...