Sen and sensibility
(Photograph) - The human face of the "dismal science", economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Over the past three decades Sen has enriched economics with his humane but rigorous analysis of social...
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20,000 leaks under the sea?
A great lake under the ocean is oneof many schemes devised by scientists to cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and hence reduce global warming. But will such technofixes create new dangers?....
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Lib Dems target students in marginals
Liberal Democrats have been urged by their party to capture student support in key seats with a "kick the Tories out" message. Neil Fawcett, party agent for Oxford West and Abingdon, told delegates...
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What comes around
So what will the CVCP be discussing in the Year 2100? Much the same as now, if one considers Professor Roberts's conclusions about the meetings of the 1880s. "The agenda for some meetings covers very...
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Awards quangos merge
The Government has given the go-ahead for the launch next year of an education and training quango to oversee the development of academic and vocational qualifications. The Qualifications and...
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Job scheme claims an 85 per cent success rate
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Love in a bold climate
"I'm a revolutionary," the student activist Rudi Dutschke told the young American theology student Gretchen Klotz shortly after their first meeting in Berlin in 1964. Revolutionaries had to be...
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Beware of school bias
The decision to form single agencies to oversee non-university qualifications may not be good news. It involves dangers that need to be considered in advance. The Qualifications and National...
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One committee, bad. . .
Richard Nicholson (THES, September 13) complained that the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report Animal-to-human transplants: the ethics of xenotransplantation did not suggest "how successful animal...
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A battle of Wills
Former enfant terrible of Shakespearean scholars Terence Hawkes is now part of the establishment, but a new battleground is emerging. It was all very civilised. In the Shakespeare Institute in...
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Tax dodgers spared axe
Staff at a new university have been offered a "no redundancy" clause by their vice chancellor if they join a profit-related pay scheme. The scheme has the support of lecturers' union Natfhe, but not...
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Governors vote out college chairman
The chairman of governors at a further education college has been forced to resign. George Mardle, a Keele University lecturer and chairman of Social Services at Staffordshire County Council, failed...
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Off the record
The CVCP clearly feels that it has had a good year, helping to provoke the creation of the Dearing review and, probably for the first time ever, winning press plaudits for political effectiveness....
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David Miller appointed chairman of Scottish Qualifications Authority
David Miller, chairman of the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Qualifications Authority, which will take over...
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Manchester's telecom canal
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...