Clever measures
Hans Eysenck takes a look at new attempts to provide a more solid scientific basis for intelligence testing. IQ testing has been extremely successful on the practical level -- predicting academic...
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Withdraw the claws and think
The National Audit Office report on the financial health of higher education institutions in England makes fascinating reading. It shows how they have navigated policy changes resulting in a 44 per...
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Chugging about China
In 100 years, perhaps, the far west of China will be linked to Xian via bullet train, but for the present one makes do with a diesel making its slow, unhurried progress through an endless desert. The...
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Grant us our daily bread
Student Paul Morris asks for enough money to live on but no more It seems the trend among student is to jump on the Labour Party bandwagon and suggest that Tory grant policy is remarkably unfair....
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Too much Merlot, too little Marlowe
One of the effects of the Thatcherian managerial revolution in the new universities has been to create a class of senior-level managers which awards itself generous "remission" from teaching. In many...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. The first working day of the New Year, and the official first day of my new lecturing post at Lancaster. I decide to prioritise emptying my previous office and will make my appearance...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Gordon Kirk (THES, January 6), raises two issues which need to be resolved regarding the external examiner system -- the duality of role as external examiner and course consultant, and the duality of...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Your items about quality assurance (THES, January 13) and the concern of vice chancellors, seems remote and out-of-tune with my recent experiences. I offer two examples. A former HMI who used to work...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Reading no fewer than three vice chancellors of "new universities" -- leading polytechnic directors as they were -- pursuing a common theme in a single THES (January 13) should alert politicians to...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
In recent years there has been much debate about the funding of the higher education sector, yet surprisingly little about the equitability with which funds are allocated for teaching at an...
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Police raid on Albanian office
The new university of Tetovo, which will provide Albanian-taught higher education for Macedonia's Albanian ethnic minority, is continuing to prove an embarrassment to the Macedonian government. The...
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Eastern economist looks west
Albanian communism was the most repressive and the most isolated of the various systems in force in central and eastern Europe. Albania initially had links with the Soviet Union, and subsequently...
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Warwick joins fellowship elite
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...
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Quality models Bucks trend
Last month Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, called on the Higher Education Funding Council to come up with proposals for external quality assurance. Producing them will take time...
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Bored again
One hundred and first, and last, in our series of literary sideswipes comes from that noted dispenser of joie de vivre and bonhomie, Friedrich Nietzsche, who demonstrated in Twilight of the Gods (...