The Mafia spreads fear in Messina
ITALY's anti-Mafia commission is investigating the University of Messina in eastern Sicily as part of a wider probe into corruption in the city. Results of an education ministry inquiry are also...
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False premise makes for wrong policy
A LINK between quality and funding is again high on the agenda. Ministers wish it so. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has set up a committee to consider how to arrange it. But it...
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Ensure standards with a light touch
Today and yesterday, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has been holding its annual meeting. On Monday, the Quality Assurance Agency will hold a consultative conference on its proposals...
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Contracts to kill
MANY universities regard fixed-term researchers funded by "soft" money as different from other fixed-term staff whose jobs would traditionally be permanent. The Association of University Teachers'...
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Remains in a museum
NEIL Chalmers is inaccurate in claiming that the World Archaeological Congress had access to the Natural History Museum's archives on its human remains collection in 1991-92 (Letters, THES, March )....
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A sexual challenge
BOTH responses to Jennifer Davey's article about enabling women to get more firsts (THES, March 13) miss her point. Davey said that women would not be "made more equal" by fudging the criteria for...
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Dearing's channel crossing
AFTER spending six years looking at the strategic management of internationalisation within UK higher education for a part-time PhD, I first read Lord Dearing's thoughts ("Dearing goes abroad", THES...
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A shake-up too far
Your description of the proposed Institute for Learning and Teaching is a depressing read (THES, April 10). Far from being a "radical shake-up", it looks like the old formula of using a solution to...
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Republican dilemma
FARHAD Khosrokhavar highlights a number of problems confronting community relations in France while leaving many questions unanswered ("Far right spreads racism in France", THES, April 3). As to the...
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Appraise be Rhys, Otto and Ms Lupone
Students on a 'Writing for the market' course would be assessed by the very market they were learning to write for, so why did Adrian Mourby have to assess them too? Last year I taught a course for...
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An equal opportunity cost
Despite women making up 30 per cent of students studying for a PhD in economics, they represent only 15 per cent of all academic economists and just 5 per cent of economics professors. Carol Propper...
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Mergers present a growing concern
You can always tell when things are getting serious: men and women of influence start writing open letters to men and women of power. Hence, I read with interest the open letter one of my colleague...
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A vision of poetry in motion
In the sesquicentennial of The Communist Manifesto, I have a confession to make: I regularly try to disabuse myself of thinking like a Marxist, identifying with the labour movement, and believing in...
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Chairs
University of Teesside Surya Shah, former associate professor at the University of Queensland, has been appointed to the first chair of occupational therapy in England. Les Johnston, reader and head...
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Honorary degrees
Kingston University Doctorates: Marilyn Butler, rector of Exeter College, Cambridge; Philip Crossland, former managing director of Chubb & Son plc; Stuart Hampson, chairman, John Lewis...