Irish degree council rapped on spending
Ireland's degree-awarding body could cut its annual budget by almost a half and still provide colleges with a better service, according to a team of independent consultants which investigated its...
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Research rise
Research and development expenditure by government, private companies and universities was Pounds 14.6 billion in 1994, an increase from Pounds 13.8 billion in 1993, according to the Office for...
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UCL steps up to world class
University College London took another step towards creating one of the largest university medical schools in the world after merging this week with the Institute of Child Health in Great Ormond...
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The team to raise the standard
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. A head teacher, a student, a training chief, a...
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Success for the MBA on tick
MONTREAL The prospect of an MBA programme that guarantees students a Can$50,000 (Pounds 25,000) a year job with their degree has tempted Canadians to dip their toe into private higher education....
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Surprise organ of offence
The ugly snobbery of Laurie Taylor's piece (THES, August 23) was breathtaking. I do not believe that you can hide behind the defence of "take a joke", "it's only a caricature", or "look what he says...
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Stubbing out the truth
As the extent of British science's collusion with the tobacco giants becomes clear, American medic Stanton Glantz tells of his battle for academic freedom and the right to publish secret documents...
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United pitch in acut-throat world
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
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Nursery dogma
Get them young. Of 48 different panels to locate next to the nursery during the opening session of the APSA conference in San Francisco, the programme committee thoughtfully opted for one on gender...
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Novel lines of attack
A nine-line letter was co-authored by academics from two institutions (THES, August 30). Are letters now counting towards the Research Assessment Exercise? Geoff Heaford Media relations manager...
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Spare theory
The forthcoming special issue of American Political Quarterly will describe six different election forecasting models. Pity it has turned down the model proffered by one Harvard academic who bases...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a writer whose metropolitan novel has a rural sound: "In a way, too, you were a terrible little creature. If we were out together, on a blanket in the park -...
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A study in waffle and daub
Green Shift
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Ebony and ivory
Composition in Black and White
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Failure on the road to success
Twyford Down