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A discussion paper on the future funding of student support, launched this week by the National Union of Students, is heavily influenced by emerging Labour Party policy, student leaders claim....
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Pay talks
University employers and union leaders were to meet yesterday to break the deadlock over proposed pay scales for l995/96. The Association of University Teachers rejected a 2.1 per cent pay offer from...
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Paddling for gold
(Photograph) - Paddling for gold: Tim Bannister, a leisure student from Bicton College, Devon, trains in his Pounds 1,500 K1 sprint canoe on Bicton Lake for international regattas in Belgium and...
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AUT backs expansion
More than 200,000 new student places - equivalent to ten to 15 new universities - will have to be created by 2010 if working-class students are to be given an equal chance with middle-class...
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CVCP plan for single quality agency
A single quality assurance agency, jointly owned by institutions and external stakeholders, principally the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been proposed by the chairman of the...
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No ducking the issue
(Photograph) - No ducking the issue: Bletchley Park, site of the Government Code and Cypher School, where 50 years ago mathematicians made their crucial contribution to winning the war by cracking...
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Complex debate spoiled by hype
Michael Harrison defends his university's approach. The headline "Second best degree risk" (THES, April 28) and the Higher Education Quality Council chief executive's "timebomb for the Government"...
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Passenger train is on the wrong track
Roxanne Powell of the LSE is not "standing before the axed Advanced Passenger Train at the National Railway Museum" (THES April 21). It looks rather like part of an old steam train - a metaphor...
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Concern for the rules
The concern for rules can distort the real problems students have in coming to understand what it is to plagiarise, but what is more important, is what it means not to plagiarise ("Thou shalt honour...
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Scientists and social forces
Ron Iphofen castigates John Ashworth for his dismissive attitude towards both postmodernism and sociologists of science in his review of my book The Trouble With Science (THES, April 21). I fear he...
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Plagiarism case returns to court for review
The controversial Hong Kong University plagiarism case will go to court for the third time in three years - for a judicial review of the university's internal inquiry. Linda Koo and her research...
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Screen test for Hong Kong's democracy
A student is suing Hong Kong's urban council for $66 (about Pounds 4.50) after claiming he missed a film because of a mix-up over his ticket for the International Film Festival, organised by the...
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Law school fights bar
A tiny law school in Massachusetts is taking on the mighty American Bar Association by suing it for monopolistic practices. The unprecedented David and Goliath struggle is expected to last years and...
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V-cs gain right to sack staff
Australian vice chancellors have greater power to sack staff following an Industrial Relations Commission decision. The federal commission accepted proposals by the vice chancellors to simplify...
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Forward-looking NVQ candidates
Describing the award of an NVQ at higher levels as being "for no more than current competences" (J. J. Sparkes, THES, April 26) demonstrates a lack of understanding of what candidates actually have...