No panic at Poppleton
Rumours that the publication of Lord Browne's review of higher education might have prompted a number of unfortunate developments at our university have been dismissed as "hysterical scaremongering"...
Rumours that the publication of Lord Browne's review of higher education might have prompted a number of unfortunate developments at our university have been dismissed as "hysterical scaremongering"...
There is a serious contradiction at the heart of Lord Browne of Madingley's review of higher education ("Lord of the market: let competition and choice drive quality", 14 October).On the one hand,...
There is another downstream effect to be considered if, as Browne seems to wish, future graduates from English universities are to find themselves burdened with post-graduation debts of ?30,000 or...
One key statement in the Browne Review has not been widely reported: "Businesses will not be compelled to contribute more - they contribute by rewarding graduates with higher wages." Presumably these...
Currently, more than 180,000 students in about 280 further education colleges are following higher education programmes, representing 10 per cent of total student numbers in higher education.The...
There is a real danger that the impact of the Browne Review's recommendations on access to higher education for those from lower-income groups will slip down the agenda in the forthcoming weeks. But...
Drawing parallels between contemporary UK politics and British colonialism in India, Africa and New Zealand may be unpalatable for the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives in the coalition government...
After the Browne Review and in these austere times, I have come to the regrettable conclusion that vice-chancellors are uneconomic and will need to be phased out. If a figurehead is needed at any...
I was surprised to read that Julian Beer of the University of Plymouth believes that the existing funding method has encouraged homogeneity and that a market would drive more institutions to...
I had to smile at the article on science and gender (perhaps in order not to cry?) ("Sisters' winning formula", 30 September).I was a physics major in the US about 25 years ago. In my second year, my...
Readers seeking relief from current woes might like to rewatch the 1980s BBC comedy A Very Peculiar Practice. The first series ends with Lowlands University facing 25 per cent cuts and being forcibly...
A leading figure in the world of librarianship has died.Maurice Line was born in Bedford on 21 June 1928 and educated at Bedford School before studying classics at Exeter College, Oxford.He embarked...
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Lord Browne's rhetoric is all about freeing universities, but his plans could result in 'a state-controlled and regulated industry'
Germans, and indeed other non-native speakers, desperately need and want to publish in English. The result is that many foreign scholars write papers in English, and with mixed linguistic results....