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LABOUR Britain is going to be a tough place for those who provide public services. In areas as diverse as utilities, universities and hospitals, the message to managers and practitioners is that they...
LABOUR Britain is going to be a tough place for those who provide public services. In areas as diverse as utilities, universities and hospitals, the message to managers and practitioners is that they...
European student mobility is not at the top of Britain's higher education agenda. It is doubtful if, for most policy-makers, it merits a place on the agenda at all. But the significant decline in...
Roger Brown believes the arguments for changing funding are strong, but some critical issues must be resolved before they are accepted Funding by credit is now seriously on the policy agenda. The...
Southampton Institute's troubles are symptomatic of a wider accountability failure. Alan Whitehead suggests answers the Nolan report did not Recent events at Southampton Institute seem to have a...
HELENA KENNEDY's claim that "for centuries (the belief in the trickle-down effect of education in which resources are concentrated on an elite group) has blighted not just the British economy, but...
YOUR readers must be fascinated with the story of Higher Education Role Analysis (THES, June ). It has everything: 1970s trade union bluster from Alan Carr of the Association of University Teachers....
A few days ago, fund-raising for our Lincoln campus development, we organised several showings at the local cinema of The Wild and the Willing. Made in 1962, it centres on a (fictional) university in...
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
JOHN OCKENDON and Rebecca Gower, reviewing the books by Anir Aczel and Simon Singh on Fermat's Last Theorem (THES, June ), have missed the point about Andrew Wiles's outstanding achievement. Although...
FURTHER to your article on the offshoots of American universities in Rome, I would like to clarify the role of The Association of American College and University Programs in Italy. Founded in Rome in...
JOHN WAKEFORD's view that the lecture has had its day needs qualifying (THES, June ). It is not that the skills of rhetoric or oratory are dead, but that the communication forms in which they are...
YOU REPORT the finding of the 1997 Research and Development scoreboard that United Kingdom R and D expenditure as a percentage of sales falls behind that of other G7 countries (THES, June ). This...
I TURNED with interest to Richard Layard's prescription for the unemployment problem (THES, June ). As your analysis rightly points out, Professor Layard has been in the background of the welfare...
The "comprehensive review" of tertiary education decreed by New Zealand's coalition government will be very different from its many predecessors. In the past, reviews have been entrusted to hand-...
Friday Only four days left of British Hong Kong, but I decline bacon and eggs and opt for the congee breakfast. We are staying at Robert Black college, the old staff accommodation of the University...