What a waste
Obliterating the binary line was a mistake, argues Mary Warnock. It ruined the vocational role of the former polytechnics and fatally debased the value of a university degree. The binary line which...
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We were always ethical folk
Robert Eaglestone examines the resurgence of a topic long neglected by many in the world of theory. Ethics" argued Steven Connor in the TLS, "seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged...
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University on verge of tax-free pay deal
A CONTROVERSIAL "tax-free pay" scheme looks set to be introduced at the University of the West of England to fend off the effects of an enrolment shortfall. Rob Cuthbert, assistant vice chancellor,...
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Full-time teacher cuts hit standards
SCRIMPING on full-time staff to save cash could lower college standards, according to the Further Education Funding Council's annual inspection report. In his third and final report before retiring...
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Long walk from apartheid
THE SOUTH AFRICAN government, under pressure to move quickly to end the inequalities in higher education of the apartheid era, is to explore ways to "Africanise" its now heavily-Eurocentric...
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Losing their heads
Nearly a quarter of college principals have retired in the past three years, a survey by the Further Education Funding Council reveals. Of the 155 colleges which have changed their principal since...
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Brand takes a back seat
Edinburgh University's psychology department was guilty of an error of judgement in appointing self-styled "scientific racist" Chris Brand as convener of an ethics committee, the university's dean of...
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Bosses to call the shots
Ministers have sent radical proposals to Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education which would transform universities into advanced training academies. They want a dramatic increase in the...
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Field of knowledge
(Photograph) - New universities in sites from London Docklands to the Highlands of Scotland will mean a new look for British higher education in the new millennium (page 6, opinion, page 11)....
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Guildhall vote to strike
Academic staff at London Guildhall University have voted to strike in protest against compulsory redundancies and a proposed pay freeze. A ballot, concluded this week, found 55 per cent in favour of...
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Politics lacks punters
Political science is falling victim to its practitioners' reluctance to compete for grants, according to a leading official of the Economic and Social Research Council. The Political Science...
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Fine tuning
(Photograph) - Kenneth Elliott, senior honorary research fellow in Glasgow University's department of music, enlists the help of soprano Mhairi Lawson and lutenist Jacob Heringman to launch the first...
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Carry on campus
Drinking binges, pill popping and cannabis smoking feature with alarming prominence in undergraduate life, according a University of Newcastle upon Tyne study. Some 3,075 second-year students from...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Teacher reform
The Government has unveiled plans for a school-based teacher training scheme. The Graduate Teacher programme will allow anyone with a degree to train in the classroom for up to a year to gain...