A world-class cause in need of champions
Someone asked if it worried me that our report would inevitably be compared with Robbins. The answer was a simple "no". It was enough of a job to bring this report home to the time deadline without...
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Swallow whole after dizzying spin
Habits of opposition die hard: spin doctoring, preemptive briefing and anxiety about alienating substantial groups of voters have been much in evidence in the Government's handling of the Dearing...
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More research time prescribed
Academic medics are valued by the NHS, says Rex Richards, but seem ill served to compete in research Medical research, a vital component of the health care of the country, is directed mainly by...
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Big guns blaze in a rodeo of bestsellers
Popular science, hot on solo heroes and Big Answers, could be leaving casual readers in a black hole of unreality. Gail Vines blames our irreligious lives - and a love affair with megastars...
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Confusion over Hera
Stephen Rouse (THES, July 7) confuses himself in his attempt to confuse your readers about the threatened imposition of the Higher Education Role Analysis job evaluation scheme. I have lost my...
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Closure of the RGO
The letter (THES, July 18) from Professor Pounds, chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council does nothing to allay concerns about his council's stewardship of the royal...
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Closure of the RGO
Professor Pounds justifies the proposed closure of the RGO in terms of savings to be made for exciting projects for the next millennium. However, by taking this step, PPARC may be excluding the UK...
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Concern at student counselling cut
How many advantages have been gained by incorporation, apart from having a chief executive instead of a principal with an open-door policy? Yeovil College is facing a second restructuring; the first...
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Singapore bonuses
Your article "Far East academics top of the pay scales" (THES, June ) provided interesting information on comparative salaries of academic staff based on a survey of seven countries. Pay scales alone...
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Don's diary
Wednesday About one week to go to the end of the BT Global Challenge. After sailing over 30,000 miles around the world I shall arrive in Southampton, wind willing, aboard yacht Commercial Union. My...
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The fizz in college freedom
Ronald Barnett writes that "the university, as an organisation, takes on the economic and instrumental rationality of the wider society" (THES, May 30, 1997). Knowledge is valued for its...
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Tuition fees are not the end of the story
In 1984, when the National Union of Students presented its annual grant claim to the minister for higher education, I learnt the best political lesson of my life. As leader of the delegation, backed...
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Loose change
Tony Blair said in Parliament on Wednesday that Dearing provides the way ahead "for further education." But elsewhere, there was no doubt what it was about - money. So central is the finance chapter...
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan Barry Plumb, professor, pro vice chancellor and dean of the faculty of science and engineering, has been appointed academic director from September 1997; Richard Moody, former...
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Trust me, I'm an MP
They may be missing Neil Hamilton, but MPs are careful to guard their collective public reputation. The best laugh of the Dearing debate came when Liberal Donald Gorrie complained the press had seen...