Collision courses
Hopeless contradictions in funding council policy point to the conflicting demands of government pressure, argues G. R. Evans. Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government...
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'The only option is to go private'
Excellence plus full funding could equal a degree costing Pounds 50,000 or more. Ron Johnston says. The vice chancellors of Cambridge, Edinburgh, University College London and Warwick have declared "...
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Unwanted science dictates
NICHOLAS Humphrey's diatribe in Perspective (THES, February 28) was a staggering piece of myopic hypocrisy. He argues that "science does not cajole, it does not dictate" and that it allows us to "...
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Unwanted science dictates
PROFESSOR Humphrey's ill-reasoned argument for mandatory science instruction contains at least three fallacies. First, he presumes that a belief in God is tantamount to a disbelief in science. Not...
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A nursing remedy
I HAVE followed two seemingly separate issues with interest: the debate on the merits of nurse education's wholesale arrival into higher education establishments (THES, February 14) and the teaching...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. The week, like the semester, is dominated by Shakespeare. I begin teaching a module called "The Shakespeare Phenomenon" which considers the place of Shakespeare in late 20th century culture...
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Union recruiters for social partnership
On the face of it, universities and unions have little in common. Trade unions are essentially defensive organisations protecting their members' jobs and pay, a bit like an insurance company for the...
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US right rues civic apathy
What chutzpah! After two decades in ascendancy, conservatives have put the question "Is American democracy dying?" at the top of their political agenda. However exasperating it is, Americans...
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Scratch 'measles approach'
GRADUATE jobs may be a thing of the past because of the huge expansion of higher education and multi-skilling requirements of industry, according to a senior industry training manager. "We still...
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Gillian Shephard speaks at the Further Education Development Agency conference
Education secretary Gillian Shephard also spoke at the conference, and outlined five challenges for further education in the future. It must: manage growth within available funding by increasing...
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'Boom town logic' blights masters
standards in taught masters courses may be suffering because of the boom in demand. Peter Knight, senior lecturer in the educational research department at Lancaster University, says more research is...
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Kenya calls in Scotland Yard
Students and lecturers at the University of Nairobi have called on the British government to bring in Scotland Yard detectives to investigate the death of a student leader which has sparked off...
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Labour proposes tests for lecturers
A Labour government would require further education lecturers to get teaching qualifications within a specified period after entering the profession, said Bryan Davies, Labour's spokesman on higher...
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Woolly logic
ARE the arguments for the cloning of animals as woolly as the first product of this technique (THES, February 28)? To what problems is cloning the solution? Will it improve the stock of animals for...
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Eagleton reinvented
IN HIS eagerness to agree with Terry Eagleton's moralising strictures against postmodernism's supposedly arbitrary relativism, Peter Aspden (THES, February 28) did not mention that Eagleton himself...