Funding postgraduates
A crucial issue has been overlooked amid the discussions provoked by the Dearing review. I refer to the provision and funding of postgraduate studies, particularly at masters level, which requires...
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Gene genie summed up
In your leader (THES, March 15) relating to the extent to which our behaviour may be genetically controlled, you report that "there is no slick term for summing up these (genetic or environmental)...
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HEFCE launches 12 private initiatives
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has unveiled 12 "pathfinder" projects for private finance, valued at Pounds 119 million. The projects, ranging from the relocation of a business...
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Shards of genius
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli have studied a savant who speaks 20 languages but struggles to put on a shirt. Readers of this newspaper probably consider...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Race case switches admission quota rule
Conservatives hope an Appeals Court ruling against using race as a basis of admissions to the University of Texas has sounded the death knell for affirmative action programmes across the United...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Turks take to streets over tuition
Turkey is in the grip of growing student unrest over the imposition of higher tuition fees by the national university administration, YOK. The disturbances are the worst the country has experienced...
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Micawber factor
Your report of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the operations of the Student Loans Company (THES, March 22) rightly records the amount of the total outstanding loan portfolio which...
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Mike the mouth
Alumnus to be proud of No: 36 is the irrepressible Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor of Thames Valley University and self-proclaimed "Kenneth Tynan of higher education," after his becoming the first...
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One to one
If Gillian Shephard does not know what binary coding looks like she might want to take a peek at a table produced in a written answer from her department to Adam Ingram. The Labour MP asked her how...
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Cash back
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students and a former student at Strathclyde University, paid tribute to Strathclyde students association's success in having resit fees abolished. "I'm...
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Kandy treat
Good timing being one of the basic attributes of the top-quality cricketer, one can only admire the coincidence of reports that the battle for an Australian-style Cricket Academy has been won with...
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Toilet training
The political backlash against increased female participation has gone beyond opposition to all-women shortlists. Seen in the University of Westminster's language building, a poster directing...
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Political footwork
The Dearing review of higher education is set to be a good deal racier than you might expect if Sir Ron's lecture at Brunel University this week is anything to go by. The script released to The THES...