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Responsibility for the crisis in higher education must fall as much on the vice chancellors as upon the Government - the crisis in funding is only an aspect of a wider malaise. John Bull's lugubrious...
Responsibility for the crisis in higher education must fall as much on the vice chancellors as upon the Government - the crisis in funding is only an aspect of a wider malaise. John Bull's lugubrious...
Ned Thomas gives a university press view on the scramble to meet the research assessment deadline. On Thursday March 28, with one working day to go, the last two books we had promised would see the...
FRIDAY. Today, we reach the culmination of 15 months of preparation for a quality assessment visit. Colleagues spend all day checking and rechecking the information we have provided. At a...
The definition of quality used in the higher education sector is dependent on values and ideologies that see education as a service which is done to or provided for students defined as consumers,...
Renowned sociologist and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset tells Huw Richards why he finds the US exceptional, Canada fascinating and Ronald Reagan shrewd. While E. M. Forster set a virtually...
The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was diagnosed a decade ago after the death of a Kent cow which had become edgy and unable to control its movements. The disease spread from 20 cases...
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. But, reports John Durant, the passing of responsibility from politicians to scientists only...
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Tim Lang describes how it feels to be an adviser to government. Last month's extraordinary...
The lead "scare" began in 1974 when Michael Moore, a doctor based at the University of Glasgow, found widespread poisoning of Scottish families from lead plumbing. Children in Glasgow were twice as...
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Scientists critical of the Government have been enjoying a field day over the latest BSE...
Governments cannot avoid having an energy policy. But British governments have consistently formed policies by their inability to find or take good advice. An example is energy pricing. Rising prices...
The Research Defence Society said this week that there has been uncritical acceptance of "antivivisectionist dogma". It has launched a campaign to show the role of animal research in medical advances.
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