Cloak and dagger tactics no good to Ulster
Higher education planning for Northern Ireland is on 'a confidential basis'. This is bad for students and a threat to university autonomy, argues Norman Gibson. "The future of higher education is a...
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Health on frontline
THERE may be another explanation for the disappointing quality of university-based health service research reported in "Clinical ratings queried" (THES, March 7). If community-based clinical subjects...
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Health on frontline
AS THE the slightly scorched author of a first-time submission to the research assessment exercise in a new and developing applied research area, I have followed the post mortem with interest. There...
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CVCP has pay choice
LAST week's front-page headline "CVCP axe over pay bargainers" was somewhat stronger than the story underneath (THES, March 7). Whatever the outcome of the Universities and Colleges Employers...
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Mistaken ambitions
You suggest that the Higher Education Fund-ing Council for England (Editorial, THES, March 7) has an ambition to control the spending on research conducted in higher education institutions. I can...
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Mistaken ambitions
Your editorial said: "Civil servants do not deliver lectures, carry out research, write books and papers or win Nobel prizes. The people who do are entitled to insist on being properly valued and...
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Rape rise misleading
Your interview with Sue Lees ("Victims of justice", THES, March 7) argues the case for special legal procedures, including changing practice on the admissibility of evidence, in rape cases. This case...
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2% cut for all trainers
The Teacher Training Agency has made it clear that it wishes school-centred initial teacher training provision to be a genuine option for those schools wishing to take the lead in planning and...
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Scots quick to correct
Your report on the decision not to publish the results of a quality assessment constructed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council at the University of St Andrews stated that the draft...
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Don's diary
Sunday. I travel to Birmingham to meet my minder for the week. I am researching decision-making by fire incident commanders and am based at the Fire Service College training establishment to...
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Bad times ahead for Bad X
A YEAR or so ago I got down from the branch-line train at a spa in south Germany. Let us call it Bad X. I had a book to finish and a dire need for a weekend away from family, colleagues and the...
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Keep it simple and people will choose
THE POPULAR vision of the future of education tells us that before long the classical model of a university will be supplemented by a flowering of forms. Course lengths will vary from a weekend to...
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On tap
(Photograph) - On tap: teenager Patrick Hoban from Meadows Residential School in Coventry visits Coventry University's engineering stand during this week's "Your Career" conference in Birmingham.
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Forearmed
(Photograph) - Forearmed: Digital image making should be part of a modern fine art training, according to Guillem Ramos-Poqu!. Dis-Arm is one of his own computer works. Feature opposite.
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Lib Dems stall cost blueprint
WORRIES over capital spending have delayed Liberal Democrat plans for releasing precisely costed higher education funding plans, meaning that they may not now be issued before the general election....