System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Amazement at pseudo avenues for advancements
Opinion (THES, August 4) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, identifies particular "avenues for advancement", the development of new concepts and capabilities, fusion of...
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Swerve theory for herds
Re academic freedom (THES, July 21, 28, August 11): in evaluating a work of social or political theory one may choose to examine its coherence or, alternatively, its "relevance". British academics...
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Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place
There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...
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It's a conspiracy of sniggers
I see you have decided once again to entertain readers with the "amusing" exam howlers certain academics seem to regard it as their duty to collect. However, given that many errors are due to the...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Hostage to a silent revolution
There is a silent revolution going on in the research councils, receiving too little comment from academia though it threatens to undermine research objectivity, thus potentially siphoning research...
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Italians spurn HE
University enrolment in Italy has fallen for the first time since the second world war. In 1994/95, 5.2 per cent fewer students enrolled than in 1993/94, writes Paul Bompard. The Central Statistics...
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Poles' vaulting ambition
Student numbers in Polish higher education seem set to continue to rise even though, in defiance of government policy, the state universities have recruited 5,000 fewer full-time students than last...
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Law dean quits after arrest
The dean of the faculty of law at the University of Nairobi has resigned following his arrest and detention for three hours at a police station for discussing political matters over a cup of tea with...
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Angolans in raid on Moscow embassy
The plight of 900 Angolan students, stranded in the former Soviet Union without means of support, is causing "extreme concern", according to the Russian foreign ministry. The Angolan government has...
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Scots look at stress on the rocks
A group of scientists at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities can genuinely describe their research as ground breaking. The Edinburgh Rock Mechanics Consortium has been investigating how rocks...
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Japanese diet doldrums
Reducing the incidence of stroke and heart disease in Japan is the aim of a tripartite research programme at the University of Wales, College of Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Kobe Gakuin...