Don's Diary
Sunday. Leave Heathrow for a week in America, attending a computing conference in Nashville, then travelling on to Chicago via a meeting at Massachusett Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in Boston...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
Natfhe welcomes proposals to reduce the duplication and bureaucracy of the present quality assurance system and supports an audit-based rather than assessment-based approach (THES, March 31). We...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
The continuing "debate" (THES, March 31) regarding quality assurance in higher education appears erroneous. The plethora of interchangeable jargon relating to quality assurance theory probably means...
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Grasp the vocational nettle
Universities have a key role to play in teacher training despite moves to shift the initial responsibility on to schools, argues John Randall. Proposals to move the focus of initial teacher training...
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First but not past the post
It was never going to be easy. Anyone who has graduated in the last couple of years will know the sense of foreboding that accompanies those first tentative steps into a job market in which graduate...
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Rare search in the wild
In reporting the Government ban on the use of wild-caught primates for research (THES, March 31) your correspondent quite correctly quoted me as saying that this "formalises what has become the...
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The right chemistry for the marketplace
How unfortunate that the headline and opening paragraph of your article on The Royal Society of Chemistry's report, The Chemistry PhD: the enhancement of its quality, (THES, April 7) chose to be...
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Pay scale mix-up righted
Computer operators' pay scales start at Pounds 6,850 per year not Pounds 6.85 per hour as printed in error in last week's THES. Elaine Harrison Head of higher education, Unison
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Researchers who teach for free
Those justifiably outraged by the thought of graduate students in Australia being forced to teach without pay might spare a thought for the growing trend in the United Kingdom for this kind of...
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Trash artists connect to `Othernet'
Collaboration between academics and an artist has given rise to a new concept of art as communication. The project is an inter-disciplinary, artistic interaction, crossing the frontiers of sociology...
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Oxbridge's law of averages
Gerard McCrum (THES, March 31) has correctly noted that women at Oxford and Cambridge are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. A principal reason for this is that far fewer women...
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Postgraduate path is way ahead
Christopher Ball writes an open letter to the vice chancellor of Oxford University calling for a focus on research. Dear vice chancellor,It is now a month since the final date for comments on the 45...
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Czech Republic in need of a strategy
While I sympathise with many of Josef Jarab's comments on higher education in the Czech Republic (World View, THES, February 10) I find his evasion of any serious discussion about the role of higher...
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Crying out for Sir Ron
The vital words have been uttered: send for Sir Ron. At long last the Government has noticed, what people all around have been saying for years, that there is a consensus that "the qualifications...
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Medical barons on exam fixing charges
Eleven professors at Rome's Sapienza University medical school are officially under investigation for allegedly "fixing" competitive exams for medical chairs. According to the Rome judge who is...