Divided perks of teaching and research
Your editorial highlighted the trend for rewards in both the private and public sector to become concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals, while others enjoy no perks or even paid...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
I sincerely hope that the desire to limit the research function of most universities will not be taken on board by the Dearing committee. I strongly believe that this would make the idea of an...
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No mission, no prize
A few months ago the University of Central England and The THES announced a competition to submit a mission statement that would encapsulate the aims and objectives of higher education in the next...
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A better work ethic
The front-page report, "Bosses to call the shots" (THES, October 18) drives more nails in the coffin of academic and intellectual independence from the ideology of the free market. Populist measures...
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Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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Keep the alumni fire burning
A year ago while meeting with two senior officials of a well-established Danish university, I had occasion to discuss fundraising activities directed at corporations and individuals by universities...
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Labour's X file
Labour is so focused on winning the next election that it has pruned its policy pledges to avoid alienating potential voters. But the radically minded should not despair. Ben Pimlott dares to suggest...
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A laureate accused
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...
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The great and not so good
Suman Gupta argues that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. The debate that followed the publication of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, an attack on Eliot's anti-...
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Starvation on a planet of plenty
As the World Food Summit opens in Rome, Laura Kelly shows how hunger is an increasing menace for many just as global food production is stagnating, and Vittoria D'Alessio asks food experts what is...
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The eco-literate mystic
Fritjof Capra set out to find 'the way' 40 years ago and ended up fusing science and spirituality and selling an awful lot of books. Graham Lawton reports. Fritjof Capra, bestselling author,...
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Notts expansion
The University of Nottingham is to build a Pounds 40 million campus designed by architect Sir Michael Hopkins. It will house the schools of management and finance, faculty of education and the...
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Ecology Ltd
The centre for human ecology, closed earlier this year by Edinburgh University, is celebrating its quarter-century by relaunching itself as an independent organisation. It is now a limited company,...
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Nolan II
Personal liability of councillors, university and school governors, and other trustees of public and charitable bodies, for decisions they make in office is to be the subject of a fresh inquiry by...
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Cost-cutting campaign puts colleges at risk
COLLEGES could be put at risk if drives for efficiency continue at the same rate, further education chiefs have warned. The Further Education Funding Council's 1995/96 annual report reveals a...