Ethnic experience at Oxbridge
Pat Younge highlighted the racial problems encountered by Shrupti Shah while attending Oxford University. Ms Shah makes a number of very vague and minor complaints: nothing specific, she "whinges"...
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How NVQs ignore the future
It is all very well for a director of standards of the Law Society (John Randall, THES April 14) to recommend NVQs, when to be a good lawyer it is only essential to conform with current practices....
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German at Goldsmiths College
We note that a post is advertised in the German department of Goldsmiths College, London. Those thinking of applying, and those asked to provide references for candidates, might recall that our...
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Lifelong learning at heart of debate
It is indeed rare to hear the voices of part-time students, and pleasing to see an editorial in The THES (April 21) paying explicit attention to them, now that they constitute more than 40 per cent...
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When everyone's a winner
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking...
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Animal Welfare
Each morning, dozens of scientists check under their cars for bombs which they fear may have been planted by animal rights extremists. Meanwhile, many moderate animal welfare groups are stone-walled...
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Give up inspection
The powers that be have a month to sort out a system of quality assurance for higher education. There is a widespread view that it cannot be done: that too many incompatible demands are being made....
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Radicals react to squeeze
New Zealand universities must specialise, reduce academic tenure, and make students contribute to tuition fees to cope with funding cuts and shifting demand for courses, according Otago University...
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Part-timers key to better quality
Until recently I worked at London University as a part-time teacher of the austere-sounding English for academic purposes. I was based at a language centre which had flourished with the boom in cash-...
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False dichotomy for Asia
It is rather disappointing that Michael Leifer (THES April 21) has chosen to rely uncritically on popularised conceptual categories in his analysis of the East Asian situation without reflexively...
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Well-known benefits in team playing
Martin Harris (THES April 21) concluded "sharing of information with all members of the community. . . can seemingly only be achieved in large and complex organisations in ways which are inherently...
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Uncertainty in pension funds
In discussing additional voluntary contributions to the Prudential or other insurance company (as opposed to the added-years scheme) Michael Connock (THES April 14) draws attention to the value of...
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EU sends funds for Swahili rescue
Swahili culture in Kenya, under threat from urban modernisation, is to receive Pounds 2.5 million from the European Union towards its preservation. Most of the money will be used to restore...
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Malawi Aids tales get set to music
When Kondwani Phwandaphwanda was accepted as a music student at Malawi's prestigious Chancellor College he was excited at the prospect of moving from his home village to the sophisticated town of...
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Question time for taboo on tenure
The knotty issue of academic tenure - politically untouchable until now - is suddenly under the microscope in the United States. Colleges are starting to offer alternatives to tenure for professors,...