Devaluing the human factor
OPPOSITION to a ban on the reproductive cloning of human beings is based on two main types of argument. One defends individual "rights" to clone, the second scientific freedom. There is a fundamental...
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What to learn from training
GOVERNMENT responses to the Dearing report are expected soon -probably now before publication of the ever receding, once white, now green, lifelong learning paper. One recommendation expected to find...
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Revenue streams without strings
Private money is important to universities - and has been getting more so in recent years. Paradoxically, its significance has grown as more public money has gone into higher education. As...
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AUT-Natfhe merger
The way union members "combine around common aims and interests" is certainly a key ingredient of effectiveness (THES, January 23). Building unity of purpose is a delicate business however and must...
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Bizarre behaviour
My sociology department has just received its result in the postgraduate training recognition exercise of the Economic and Social Research Council. In addition to telling us that we are not fit for...
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Paternity puzzler
The response of bioethicist John Harris to the possibility of human cloning is "Why not?" (THES, January 23). While he is right to call for reasoned debate, his defence of the individual's right to...
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The right to say no to the auditors
Many senior managers will have been surprised that Cambridge University does not wish to involve itself in the Quality Assurance Agency's continuation audit process (THES, January 30). The QAA...
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The right to say no to the auditors
THE apparent refusal of Cambridge University to acquiesce in its continuation audit by the Quality Assurance Agency must come as welcome news to all who believe, like me, that British higher...
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Bill amendments
Liberal Democrat amendments for report stage of Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Clause 16 Amendments by Lord Tope call for: * loans to be extended to part-time students on or before April 1, 2000...
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The right to say no to the auditors
As chair of the British Association for American Studies I have been pressing the Quality Assurance Agency to take account of the view of Americanists in their new plans for subject expert teams (...
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Fellowships
London School of Economics and Political Science The following were elected as honorary fellows of the school: Pat Barker, author and winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction; Nicholas Garganas, deputy...
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Chairs
University of Southampton W. Jenkins, formerly with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chemical oceanography; T. Kendrick, former clinical coordinator of the South Thames General Practice Research...
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Clinton fuels R&D for jobs and progress
THE CLINTON administration is proposing to spend $170 billion (Pounds 106 billion) of government money on research and development in the next five years, billing its "21st Century Fund" as the new...
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Admission figures fall in teaching
PRIMARY teacher training courses have experienced a more than 15 per cent fall in applications, the latest figures show. Similar falls in the number of applicants for degrees or diplomas in social...
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MOD in health contract spat
THE MINISTRY of Defence has awarded Portsmouth University Pounds 600,000 to train its nurses just months after the National Health Service withdrew a similar contract. A spokesman for Portsmouth...