Blackstone hails UFI objectives
PROCLAIMED last week as the next big step in widening access to higher education, the University for Industry pilot project in the Northeast was warmly endorsed at its launch by higher education...
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Labour faces fees protests
LABOUR may still face a revolt over its plans to axe maintenance grants and introduce tuition fees at its conference next week, despite its announcement this week of extra money for universities. A...
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Campaign 'left papers muddled'
THE BRITISH press did not lurch to the left during the 1997 general election. Instead of reorientation, it displayed all the symptoms of disorientation, according to academics from Loughborough...
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Proportional representation
* Under some forms of proportional representation Labour could have won the election with an even bigger majority than it got under the first-past-the-post system, according to research commissioned...
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Snapshot out of focus
A leading university administrator has criticised the Dearing inquiry's report on administrative staff as "misleading" and a "gross misrepresentation" of their work. Peter West, secretary of...
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V-cs promise deal on standards, access, etc
Consultation on the Dearing inquiry ends in ten days' time. These are some of the latest submissions The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals says in its submission to the Department for...
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Students oppose Scots angle on tuition
Consultation on the Dearing inquiry ends in ten days' time. These are some of the latest submissions The student associations of the ancient Scottish universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
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Students as customers will demand value for cash
In the third of our series on the big issues in the Dearing debate, Kate Jenkins draws attention to the needs and demands of students Any British student going to university has already survived an...
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Scots must get steer the debate
As The THES went to press Scotland was still waiting to know how it will fare for extra cash. This was presented by Scottish education minister Brian Wilson as evidence of robustly independent...
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Cooperative society
The International Islamic University of Malaysia is far from the intolerant institution portrayed in a recent THES article, says Subki Bin Ahmad Shabbir Akhtar made several allegations against the...
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How to sail through life on the Seven Cs
Social skills are as necessary as academic success, says Alec Reed who teaches business students a course called LIES Today's educational agenda is more and more concerned with academic standards....
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Not taking it any more
MEDICAL doctors' groups asking for a further 10 per cent pay rise on top of their recent inflation-busting salary increases justify their claim by asking for parity with other professionals. As a...
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Pay review body is vital
I AGREE with John Ashworth (THES, September 19) that the primary task of the Dearing report was to address university funding, and that the Government must be pressed to rise to Dearing's challenge...
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No mobility, no jobs
I WAS surprised to learn that the pro vice chancellor of Middlesex University considers that a university has no control over the employment prospects of its graduates (THES, September 19). He will...
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No mobility, no jobs
GEOFFREY Alderman (THES, September 19) provides a neat overview of what is wrong with the league tables employed by the press in his argument for a more rational, transparent and credible system of...