Insist on consistency
In recent months the quantity of comment devoted to the quality of qualifications has reached an unprecedented level, with few qualifications escaping scrutiny. Examinations Quality and Standards...
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Welsh practice makes perfect sense
One of the greatest challenges faced by the new Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education is to take forward the commitment to partnership and collaboration set out in the report of the Joint...
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An elitist scandal
YOUR lead story last week reporting the social class distribution of university entrants shows how little things have changed over the past few decades. In fact things have changed quite a lot....
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Balancing teaching and research
THE TIME is right to encourage national debate now about the balance to be struck between res-earch and teaching. The new national Quality Assurance Agency urgently needs to grapple with definitions...
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Balancing teaching and research
THREE cheers for Alan Jenkins's suggestion (THES, April 18) that universities should professionalise HE teaching, not least by planning for quality and not simply reacting to TQA audits. This is the...
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Balancing teaching and research
IN TRADITIONAL modernist cultures of higher education, research and teaching have become separated. These two activities are viewed as oppositional, orchestrated by the RAE, and there are now moves...
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Balancing teaching and research
I WISH to support, from a "vocational" subject area and a "new" university, the views of Philip Cerny (THES, April 18). Our profession, if allowed to operate without the sort of interference and...
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Balancing teaching and research
PHILIP Cerny is wrong in putting the research versus teaching debate solely in terms of whether teachers do or do not carry out research. Equally important is to seek proper recognition for...
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Blowing up statues
PAULA MURPHY, in her opening paragraph on the demolition of statues in Dublin (THES, April 11) invests the whole proceedings with a national fervour which is somewhat at variance with the various...
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Hungarian breach
I HAVE not read the Romanian 1994 Education Act, but from my experience of the University of Cluj/Kolozsv r the proposed creation of a Hungarian language faculty of law within this university (THES,...
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The mighty underdogs
WHAT A pleasure it was to see my honest colleague, Jim Bulpitt, write in your pages about his decision to vote Tory in the forthcoming election with such unremitting frivolity (THES, April 18). How I...
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Students at ballot box
BY GIVING the percentage of students in constituencies to two decimal places (eg 14.92 per cent in Leeds Northwest) (THES, April 18) you suggest that student numbers can be estimated accurately to...
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Virtual minefield
MYCONCERN about Niall Ferguson's counterfactual history is its likely misuse (THES, April 4). Virtual history will be used to try and legitimise the revival of policy or political ideology that has...
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Don's diary
Monday. I join the Royal Research Ship Discovery in the port of Vigo, Spain. Meet the old and a few new faces in the ship's crew and the other scientists sailing with me. It is a multicultural...
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Regions in search of an identity
When the polytechnics became the latest wave of new universities in 1992 there was a scramble to retain or adopt an attractive city title. But as many of the older universities had already...