Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Arrive in Toronto having been relayed from Manchester via the retail mecca which is today's Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The weather seems surprisingly mild. Spend the evening making hasty...
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Black rule hits league tables
The number of African students registered at South African universities has trebled in the past ten years - and for the first time last year more students were black than any other race group -...
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How demanding Latin would penalise state school pupils
Like Peter Jones in his article on classics (THES, May 19), I fear its demise through the restrictions of the national curriculum. I attended state school, studied Latin and Greek at school, went on...
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Specialist language and communication
It is to be hoped that more than just quantum physicists heed the message of Peter Holland (THES, May 12). Physicists, engineers, computer experts, managers, in fact many professionals seem to think...
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Guildhall called to account
The Majid case at London Guildhall University (THES, May 19) ought to be causing great public concern on three counts, apart from the central one of injustice to an individual. Guildhall has spent...
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Anti-academic sniping surrounds NVQ support
Discussion about higher level NVQs needs to emerge from the mire of simplistic publicity which accompanies their promotion and the parallel dismissal of any objection to them. There is a serious gap...
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Human capital proves worth
Improving workers' education can boost productivity more than adding tools and machinery, according to the census bureau of the United States department of education. Based on interviews with...
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Protests at India call to privatise
Madhavrao Scindia, Indian education minister, has made himself unpopular after barely two months in office because of his advocacy of private funding of universities. His "invitation" to the private...
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Man seeks damages for sex bias
A barrister has accused the University of Melbourne of discriminating against him for a position in its French department because he is Australian and a male. Peter Freckleton is seeking a ruling...
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Darwinism for today
Those who know anything about evolutionary biology (aka Neo-Darwinism) are invariably dismayed by the tiresome claims that Brian Goodwin ("Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory", THES,...
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Graduate statistics
Your leader (THES, May 19) seeks to compare statistics on the graduate recruitment market and salaries from a variety of sources. This does lead to problems as the surveys cover different sectors of...
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Picking ants' brains to make connections
The article by David Salt (THES, April 28) is highly critical of the connectionist approach to artificial intelligence. Some of his criticism of is well aimed, but connectionism is not a monolithic...
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Student defaulters
I read the article by Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr with interest, in places not unmixed with agreement - until I reached the phrase "The Student Loan Company projects up to 490,000 defaulters by...
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Greetings to one QA body
The news this week that agreement has been reached in principle for the formation of a single quality assessment organisation is most welcome. Now it should be possible to move forward to design a...
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Sauce for the gander
So junket Jerry got off with a wigging and we will never know whether what he did was a one-off or business-as-normal at Westminster. The Wiggins affair blew up just as Tory backbenchers, led...