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Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
It is no surprise that universities and industry have welcomed with open arms students holding new vocational A levels. (THES, June 30). Colleges have embraced these new qualifications...
I recently spent a week chairing one of the discipline committees set up by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) for the assessment of research quality in Dutch universities....
English university libraries will have 25,000 more seats soon, thanks to the Follett report, says Frederick Friend. The report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group, chaired by Sir...
The High Court decision in the Institute of Dentistry case puts responsibility on the shoulders of individuals as well as the committees they form, G. R. Evans says. Up to now it has been been...
Recent moves by the Inland Revenue to impose taxation on universities and further education colleges will add millions of pounds to the cost of providing higher education. The introduction of new tax...
The THES report (June 23) on the economic benefits of international students based on the recently published Committe of Vice Chancellors and Principals report comes at a time when more attention is...
Readers of your editorial page (THES, June 23) might be forgiven for detecting a contradictory note. In one editorial you acknowledged that the Nolan committee will have much to look at during its...
By some misfortune, Richard Swinburne is misrepresented in Gerard Kelly's very capable article about me (THES, June 30). A firm theological realist, Swinburne may well be described as one for whom...
It is neither the scientists nor engineers in our universities that are "patently poor at capitalising on ideas" (THES, June 23) but the people who represent them. University researchers and teaching...
European education ministers have warned that demand could far outstrip European Union funding when the new programme for educational exchanges and language learning gets off the ground. Socrates,...
A strike by university lecturers and researchers in Portugal has disrupted entry exams for state higher education over the past week. The strike, which ended today, was in support of a union call for...
Italy's scientific community, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, is outraged by cuts to the already meagre budget for scientific research, and by rumours of further cuts in 1996. The 1995...
Politicians mulling over the prospects of a more student-led higher education market may find the training debate currently preoccupying the legal profession instructive. Law graduates preparing to...
The television series House of Cards - which confronted viewers with the image of Ian Richardson turning a picture of Margaret Thatcher face down with the words "Some day even the greatest reign must...