Harmony for 70 years
Patrick Parrinder complains (THES, letters, March 24) about my comments in an earlier letter on the harmonisation of copyright in Europe. Had the original sentence been reproduced in full, it would...
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Yesterday's men, tomorrow's problem
I have been absolutely astonished at the space the educational press has devoted to Natfhe's internal debates regarding the long-running further education new contracts' dispute. I have been even...
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Competition for research funds
The benefits of research council-funded research - output, training, undergraduate experience - identified by Derek Roberts (THES March 17) apply equally to new as well as established universities,...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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Defining the tools for Foresight job
Ben Gill's article on the Technology Foresight Programme (THES March 24) gives an inaccurate and misleading impression of the process and of the tools which were used to support the panels. Taking...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Headhunters like Graham MacKenzie of Saxon Bampfylde, make their money by charging their clients a percentage of the remuneration package for anyone they succeed in getting hired. So they have a...
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Vice chancellors' pay
The publication of the league table listing vice chancellors' salaries (THES, March 24) is a reflection of the public expectation of openness about pay for the most senior people in both the public...
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Hong Kong heaven for academics
Huw Richards's report on The THES-sponsored conference about the future of Hong Kong (THES, March 24) provided little about the kind of future awaiting those planning to remain here post-1997,...
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Quarts into pint pots
Do not put today's Synthesis: Buildings and Estate Management in the bin unread. These are your working conditions it is talking about. This is also what "managerialism" in universities is about,...
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Of motes and beams
Why do women get fewer first class honours degrees than men - and fewer thirds? Gerard McCrum raises at least the first half of this hardy perennial on page 19 in relation to Oxbridge but it is a...
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'A system which eliminates people'
"I think the ideas are good, but it is going very fast. In the long term maybe it will work, but right now it doesn't," says Teresa Le"n, a history student at the University Rovira y Virgili in...
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Spain's rollercoaster of reform
Spain, a country which has seen more rapid change than most over the last two decades, has been engaged in a far-reaching reform of its higher education system since 1983. In the early 1980s, Spain's...
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`I think we went too fast'
"I think we went too fast," says Jordi Berrio, vice rector of academic affairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This modern campus university of 34,000 students was one of the first to...
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Student loans fraud inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office has been called in by New Zealand's education ministry to investigate the theft of up to NZ$750,000 (Pounds 306,000) in student loans. The referral came after preliminary...
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Court imposes black policy
Mississippi has been ordered to spend $35 million on its historically black universities by a federal judge who has said the state may not close one of its three black colleges as planned, writes...