Funding link to quality broken
The assumed connection between funding and quality in higher education appears to have broken down, according to an analysis of teaching funding published by The THES this week. The analysis, by...
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Children of the divide
It should have been a symbol of hope for Ulster's fragile future. The daughter of a renowned republican facing the son of a prominent unionist in an election for president of Queen's University's...
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Dining on data
The Scott report and its evidence promises to be a real feast for university departments to binge on. Joe Jacob examines the courses So at long last Sir Richard Scott has reported on the arms-to-Iraq...
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Alien runs for president
A Canadian history professor is running in the New Hampshire primary as the first foreigner to run for president of the United States. Bruce Daniels, a University of Winnipeg professor, has dual...
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AUT calls for truce with Natfhe
The Association of University Teachers has today made public a strategy to bring to a halt two years of rivalry and disagreement with lecturers' union Natfhe by creating a single union for higher...
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Data wars dispute hits research
Global environmental research could be seriously damaged in an escalating dispute about who should pay for satellite data. Last week the United States fired the latest salvoes in what is being called...
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Keep your huddled masses
'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' beseeches the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It is a welcome many in the US would not extend to today's immigrants, whom they see as too...
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Harried by the mob
Lucy Hodges reports on the challenges facing a world with six billion inhabitants The statistics are sobering. Global population, which stands at 5.7 billion, is expected to almost double by the...
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The doctors' stroke of luck
Would you save the life of a dictator who was in the habit of arresting doctors whose prognoses displeased him? Zhores Medvedev speculates that Stalin's death was a mite premature At the beginning of...
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The end is nigh
John Leslie argues that if you view the certainty of global warming, the likelihood of nuclear war and the possibility of grey goo calamity from the perspective of the doomsday argument, nobody...
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Loan wagon in need of repair
The bandwagon is rolling for some form of graduate tax. The executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is pushing hard on the idea of an income-contingent loan, a scheme operating...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Eating satay in the comfort of Malaysia Airlines I ponder why I should be travelling 6,500 miles to teach on a masters in management degree course. British Aerospace had explained to me at a...
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Bemoan the folly of the hour
In the week that the Irish cabinet agreed on draft university legislation, Vincent McBrierty examines government participation in university affairs Political intrusion into the governance of...
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Just keep on moving . . .
The internationalisation of higher education needs attention, says Roger King The flow of students across national boundaries in pursuit of their studies has long been regarded as beneficial - for...
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The logic in loans
Apparently, "people think that if you talk about income-contingent loans frequently enough, the problem will go away" ("Loans idea 'irritates' Forth, THES, February 9). Who are these people? As far...