Barr to popularity
Even farther afield is Nick Barr, London School of Economics expert on education finance, whose views Dearing sought. He is in Australia advising on reform of the HECS student finance scheme, admired...
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Volume growth
The university sector may have grown, but be thankful reports on it are growing in price and size a little more slowly. Dearing costs Pounds 135, a little more after inflation than Robbins in 1963....
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Degrees go Ron and on
Alumnus to be proud of no 117 is, to your amazement, Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, who can boast nine degrees. Only one, in economics from the University of Hull, was secured by the conventional route....
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Howells unveils tracking device
RIGOROUS ways to "identify and track" youngsters' education are being explored by the Government, including plans to compile data on students' progress through higher education, which may be used to...
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A point on acupuncture
The Government has long been urging complementary therapy organisations to "get their house in order" (THES, July 11). The British Acupuncture Accreditation Board was established in 1990 to accredit...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from an emigre millenary: "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the...
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A full Roman assemblage
The World of Rome
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Sift, stir and reconstitute
Politics and the Constitution - Power and the People
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Haunted by a boneless beast
Lexicographica Graeca
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Cold-war topiary
We Now Know
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Diary of an urban destroyer
Despatch on War Operations
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A Welsh corner of forgotten Tories
An Anglican Aristocracy
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Death in Damascus
The Damascus Affair
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Absorbing ideas via porous borders
Cultural Internationalism and World Order
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Was Preston Phoenician?
The Trophies of Time