Engulfed in a tyrant's wake
Salaries of 50p a month, teaching computers without the hardware, books costing more than a month's pay and a ban on the import of pencils. Welcome to higher education in Iraq. Christine Aziz reports...
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Diversity challenge
The university of the future The overwhelming impression that comes from reading Dearing's Higher Education in the Learning Society is the familiarity of the issues involved even from half a world...
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The wrong conclusion
I AGREE with most of what Phil Willis MP said in his THES article last week. Any money raised by tuition fees must be retained for the benefit of higher education. Since employers are major...
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Not acting responsibly
SO Chris Brand feels that his "academic freedom" has been curtailed (THES, August 15). Does this mean his "freedom" to attempt to give racism a veneer of academic respectability, or his "freedom" to...
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Clinical research needs a shot in the arm
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education ALL IS not well with clinical research in this...
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Top-up fees revived by tuition fee let-down
Universities responded with alarm this week to news that student tuition fees was not extra money for them Oxford said it would fight moves to reduce its local authority fee income in line with the...
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No more mistresses
SUE Wilks and Griselda Pollock (THES, August 15) wish to "outlaw sexist bachelor and masters degrees" as they are part of "archaic male-dominated language", and Ms Wilks wishes to be called Mistress...
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Staff pay the price in jobs
Cambridge University expects to shed about 60 academic jobs by the turn of the century as part of a plan to cut Pounds 1.5 million from the annual wage bill. It was hoped that the introduction of...
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No extra cash as Treasury grabs fees
UNIVERSITIES will not see a penny of student tuition fees over the next few years because the Government intends to siphon off the cash to cover central administration costs. The Department for...
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Cambridge defends promotion policy
Phil Baty reports on the final rounds of a lecturer's long legal fight to open up Cambridge's promotions system Cambridge University maintains that there is not enough money to promote everyone. A...
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Colleges in line for big slice of Pounds 875m
COLLEGES should receive a major chunk of an Pounds 875 million windfall from the Government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to education secretary DavidBlunkett. Mr Blunkett has written to...
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Funding of 16-19 education
The AOC has written to the Department for Education and Employment urging a rethink on government policy on the funding of 16-19 education. The association is concerned that by 2000 colleges will...
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Students fail to buy half necessary course texts
Students are buying just half the number of books they should be, and money must be found to redress the shortfall, the Publishers Association warned this week. Only 42 per cent of students buy all...
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House gas safety plea after off-campus death
A JUDGE urged all universities to ensure registered student accommodation had gas-safety certificates after fining two men who created "a veritable deathtrap" for students. Judge Denis Orde said that...
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School-leavers ignorant of university living costs
A survey by NatWest Bank has found 61 per cent of school-leavers believe they will manage three years at university without going into debt. The study of 1,200 A-level pupils found 23 per cent asked...