Break down the union barriers
Six years after the creation of the new universities distinctions are blurring. They teach as well as old universities - especially if allowance is made for their bigger classes and different...
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Caveats in defence of autonomy
TWO requirements handed to the draftsmen of part two of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill were to ensure that institutions make new home and European Union undergraduate entrants pay tuition...
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Identity crisis for the new generation of teachers
Trainee teacher Toby Marshall thinks his fellow students have bought new Labour's hype on education and forgotten about developing intellectual independence In September 1996 I enrolled on a...
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The silence of the ordinances
Procedures for making appointments, particularly to chairs, are surprisingly informal, says Richard Clogg. He calls for Scandinavian-style openness The THES's campaign to introduce an element of...
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Clans cross borders
An interesting game of national and political identities emerges from "Clan mentality rules in Italian universities" (THES, January 9). This implies two European countries, obviously Italy and...
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
SUSAN Greenfield says that peer review procedures are stifling the "derring-do and innovative thinking that gave this country a reputation for truly astonishing science" (Letters, THES, January 16)....
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
IT SEEMS impossible not to endorse the various flaws in peer review of applications for research grants and academic promotions. We are admonished to go for peak-quality performance, yet power and...
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
Mantz Yorke calls for the marriage of teaching and research by establishing a separate unit of assessment in the research assessment exercise devoted to higher education (Opinion, THES, January 16)....
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Appointments
Church of Scotland. Alan Main, professor of practical theology at Christ's College in Aberdeen and former university chaplain, has been appointed moderator of the General Assembly from 1998....
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Parodies of life and art
IN HIS review of Ernest May and Philip Zelikow's The Kennedy Tapes (THES, January 16), Alex Danchev is wrong to suggest that Curtis E. LeMay was the model for General Jack D. Ripper (in Dr...
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True tales of Cyprus
THE admirable rise of higher education in the illegally-occupied Turkish zone of northern Cyprus (THES, January 9) may have more to do with the concerted campaign by certain sectors of the Turkish...
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Warwick: a correction
Diana Warwick did not sit at the hearing of the case of Hashmukhary Bhatt at the employment appeals tribunal ("Warwick embroiled in contracts rumpus", THES, January 16). Unfortunately, due to an...
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Yiddish's strengths
"An Oksforder's Blues" referred to the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (THES, January 16) yet we were surprised that no one contacted us for information. Jim Reed and Dov-Ber Kerler are both...
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The new face of recession
NO FINANCE minister can ever talk publicly of "the next recession". To do so is, at best, to admit that the government's policies cannot prevent it and, at worst, to invite the opposition to accuse...
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Tough reforms for Germany
GERMAN students went on strike in many cities last autumn. Unlike student strikers of more "revolutionary" times, they were not demanding fundamental changes in society, but simply reform of higher...