A stitch in time
Pull yourselves together, Catherine Cadman tells her colleagues in nursing education, and swallow some home truths before the universities swallow you Incorporating nurse education into higher...
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Surfers paradise
(Photograph) - Equipped with 500 computers including new machines from Opus Technology and Apple Computer, South Bank University's learning resource centre has proved so popular that managers now...
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Pay scales lack justice
ALTHOUGH the protracted pay struggle seems to be drawing to a close for another year one significant and longstanding anomaly has still not been resolved. The THES table of pay scales in the old and...
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Pay scales lack justice
THE RECENTLY negotiated national pay settlement between the universities and the Association of University Teachers contained an unambiguous agreement by both sides that "a fully funded independent...
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Political diagnosis gone awry
IT WAS disappointing to see how many of Paul Preston's judgements in his review of Europe: A History (THES, January 31) were based on misguided political pigeon-holing. Any sound commentator should...
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Watchdogs need teeth
I was interested to read that the National Audit Office has called for the establishment of an ombudsman for higher education (THES, January 31). As a Manchester resident, I regularly see half page...
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No change yet at ACU
DAVID JOBBINS refers to certain changes of emphasis that are supposed to have taken place in the orientation of the Association of Commonwealth Universities ((THES, January 31). While it is true that...
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Think of the victims
IN AN article in which she naively dismisses the effects of Holocaust denial, Jennie Bristow asks "why has so little fuss been made about these new restrictions on free speech?" (THES, February 7)....
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Think of the victims
JENNIE BRISTOW accused the National Union of Students of censorship, citing the BNP and Hizb-ur Tahrir as the victims. She represents only herself in this view, having failed to get elected at NUS...
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Organ sale is sensible
ONORA O'NEILL (THES, February 7) is mistaken to worry that allowing the sale of human organs will cause people to sell unhealthy ones. People will simply be screened for health. She is also mistaken...
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Myths and TV dinners
ANNE MURCOTT (THES, January 31) claims in her otherwise excellent article on the supposed demise of the family meal that there is little academic research which has focused on this topic. Our study...
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Lecturers need to wave subjects' flag
MASS higher education has made it difficult to be certain about standards, according to the Higher Education Quality Council. So it should be a matter of concern to all lecturers that they know what...
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Notts prods 'poor' staff to early exit
All academic staff at Nottingham University have been asked to produce a two-year research plan to determine whether they would be better off sticking to teaching. The university meanwhile intends to...
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Engineer's epistles
An important collection of long-lost papers and drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel were unveiled by Bristol University this week. The university paid around Pounds 100,000 at Christie's for the...
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Forsyth saves archive
Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth has vetoed a decision to close a major part of the Scottish Record Office after academics warned that research would be hit by the closure of West Register House.