Budget cuts are not gains
While universities have to accept that continual demands for efficiency gains are inevitable, last year's budget cuts go far beyond anything which can be described as promoting efficiency, Brian...
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HEFCE will be 'less of a nanny'
Universities and colleges have been given greater freedom and responsibility in the management of their financial affairs, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...
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Cooperate more to avoid 'suicide'
Universities must cooperate more if they are to avoid "suicidal" levels of competition, warned vice chancellors' chief executive Diane Warwick. Ms Warwick also told the Association of University...
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RAE discs jockey for success in Bristol
Universities and colleges are gearing up for higher education's most controversial competition, the Research Assessment Exercise. As the "census" date for research staff transfers passed and the end-...
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Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher
(Photograph) - Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher holds up a disc with the details of the university's submission to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Research...
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Novelty and nature
Is there a gene that promotes risk? asks David King Are you a risk taker? Do you do things "just for kicks"? As a THES reader, perhaps not, but if you do, part of the reason may be genetic. Before...
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Long shelf life
So how much has academic library life changed in the past century? Extracts from the Edinburgh University Library archives for 1895-97 printed in the recent 100th issue of the library's news bulletin...
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He should know
Alumnus to be proud of no. 43 is man of letters A.N. Wilson, who recently regaled readers of the London Evening Standard with a short appreciation of the usefulness of higher education - arguing that...
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Vowel problem
A young Italian-speaking Eurocrat, making introductions in English at the fair, became confused over the pronunciation of EAIE, the acronym for the Educational Association for International Education...
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Unhappy birthday
And what did you do on your birthday? It would take someone with an extreme grievance against economic historians not to feel some sympathy for Roderick Floud, vice chancellor of London Guildhall...
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The English disease
The European Commission's ambition to harmonise qualifications throughout member states should begin with taxi drivers, undoubtedly the most homogeneous professional group to be found. A delegate to...
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Verbosity vaccine
Antithesis loves to hear about a new discipline, and is especially taken with a suggestion last week by John Grange of Imperial College, London, who is investigating the finer details of our immune...
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It's SIMple
A new company called Apocalypse Software seems anxious to break into the HE market. "After SIM City and SIM Earth," says its leaflet, "comes SIM University. Make your little extramural class on...
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NUS elects Blairite chief
NUS president elect Douglas Trainer has his sights fixed firmly on a new future where students contribute to their education and where negotiation rather than confrontation is the norm. Mr Trainer's...
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Welsh fearful at prospect of levy
Worries over funding are making higher education heads in Wales nervous over the prospect of introducing an entrance levy. Many believe that Welsh institutions would suffer serious recruitment...