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  1. Safety 'hit by cash pressures'

    Unison claims employee health and welfare increasingly at risk as resources are squeezed THE health and safety of higher education employees is a low priority in universities, Britain's biggest union...

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  2. Face-to-face admission

    UCAS applicants who list hobbies and pastimes are often revealing little more than their privileged upbringing and not how capable they are of taking responsibility ("Is an interview really necessary...

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  3. NVQs need a debate

    THE government is not paying the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Pounds 5 million a year to draft occupational standards with industry (THES, June 19). Updating national occupational...

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  4. Face-to-face admission

    YOU report Nick Tate, QCA chief executive, as asserting that "... we have these standards (for NVQs) and there is no reason why they should not be used to build other qualifications as well". There...

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  5. The eighties' rise of the good degree

    YOUR story on grade inflation gives a misleading impression by failing to place university degree results in a wider context ("Dumbing down disproved", THES, June 26). Although the award pattern has...

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  6. The eighties' rise of the good degree

    SO THE Confederation of British Industry believes employers would be "worried and confused" if degree classifications were replaced by something more informative. It is scarcely reassuring that the...

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  7. Sporting chances

    YOUR editorial (THES, June 5) said that "the access challenge facing further and higher education in Britain is that of attracting young white men from lower socio-economic groups". You asked "Could...

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  8. Too green for comfort

    I WAS unaware that the government-supported "greening" of universities was well in hand (THES, June 12). Is it likely to lead to a further assault on academic freedom? I am a life scientist. In...

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  9. Oxford's fee legacy

    The 1977 removal of Oxbridge college students' fees from means testing was not a "daft decision" by then education secretary Shirley Williams (THES, June 26) but an administrative cock-up by the...

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  10. Oxford's fee legacy

    Oxford clearly needs a Royal Commission, but attacking the college system is barking up the wrong tree. A worse problem in Oxford, one not shared with Cambridge, is the dismal state of the non-...

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  11. Don's Diary

    Monday Apprehensive. Our library at Sunderland University is hosting a major conference, and a day of feverish activity awaits. Hover nervously as assorted VIPs roam. At one point there are more...

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  12. Rotten boroughs of the unaccountable

    THE job of a good scandal is to jemmy open cans of worms to public view in the hope that someone will pour in some worm killer. But some scandals are just not up to it. One of this kind briefly...

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  13. The way we were radical

    AT THE END of this semester I planned to throw myself into 19th-century American history, but two new books - 1968: Magnum Throughout the World, a collection of photographs introduced by Eric...

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  14. Lead way to Europe, peers tell v-cs

    PEERS have accused the British government and university vice-chancellors of "a serious failure of leadership" over student mobility in Europe. They have concluded that a lack of coordination between...

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