Dash for trash
David Cannadine lambasted the research assessment exercise for "inflating the quantity of output" and "deflating the quality" ("Flaws of supply with no demand", THES, April 23). He said that a "...
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Dash for trash
Where is the evidence of super-abundance and "frenzied energy" in the figures quoted by David Cannadine? Do they not simply indicate that while the historians who actually did publish in 1989...
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Brits still go abroad
Your article "Brits reluctant to study abroad" (THES, April 16) was misleading. It referred only to Socrates/ Erasmus exchanges, which represent less than half of the residence abroad that UK...
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Complacent, us?
Too many in education prefer the status quo to thinking about solutions, writes former Tory minister George Walden Writing your memoirs reminds you to count your educational blessings. Mine was a...
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Why I...believe the Welsh Assembly should not compel students to be taught in Welsh
For centuries, the Welsh were trapped by their obscure Celticlanguage in which little of importance was written. When they switched to English they entered the mainstream of European science and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...Cary Cooper argued that bullying is on the increase in universities I am a professor in a grade five department at a leading research university, one of only nine female...
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Government supports body for vocations
The government has offered to support the creation of an Association of Profession Verifiers to encourage high standards in vocational qualifications.
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Bett to call for big pay boost
The Bett report will call for millions of pounds more from government to improve pay and conditions for higher education staff. Firm figures on recommended pay levels by 2002, taking into account...
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Cambridge in dock over radioactivity
Cambridge University was set to face criminal charges this week for losing a package of radioactive material. As The THES revealed in December last year, the Health and Safety Executive has been...
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Students challenge BAe over arms exports
Students demonstrated at the British Aerospace annual general meeting in London this week to protest against arms exports to repressive regimes. Members of the Campaign Against Arms Trade Student...
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Tories don't give FCUK about retailer's action
Scottish Conservatives this week laughed off the prospect of fashion retailer French Connection taking action over its Scottish election stunt of distributing 30,000 T-shirts to students which read "...
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Student debt
Rising student debt has not discouraged postgraduate enrolment, according to the figures. Overall the number of home students starting a full-time postgraduate course this academic year is up by 2...
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Strike threatened to stop redundancies
Strikes are threatened at Bournemouth University over eight threatened redundancies in law, accountancy and business. College and university lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot for action, arguing...
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European education failing to harmonise
While European Union member states are taking steps to converge economically, their higher education systems are as diverse as ever, researchers at the Institute of Education have found. Despite...
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Institutions play their part in country's sport
Universities and colleges have become key providers of sports and cultural facilities to the wider community, according to a report published last week by the Higher Education Funding Council for...