NZ two-tier focus warning
Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould has warned that the way New Zealand's universities are to be funded will favour a few at the expense of the rest. New Zealand risks sacrificing a world-...
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Ministers must trade grants for top-up fees
The phoney war is over. This week, the real battle over top-up fees - and with them the future shape of higher education - began in earnest. Higher education minister Alan Johnson was predictably...
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Will our legacy be great idiots savants of history?
Universities must reclaim their role as instillers of values as well as imparters of knowledge, argues Alan Gilbert Something must be done to make human life on earth more equitable. Being an agent...
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Harry Kroto
If Tony Blair had spent more time listening to the advice of reasonable people, he might not have been so quick to involve the UK in an illegal invasion of Iraq. I am pretty awful at chess - a...
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What's the ticket for v-c riders?
Most vice-chancellors managed to make it to Warwick this week for the annual Universities UK conference, even without the private railway carriage that was promised last year. One evening, three...
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Conference calls and catcalls
A competition to find the most inviting, unappealing, complex or bizarre conference title was launched this week by Rob Davidson, a senior lecturer in business travel and tourism at Westminster...
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Many happy QAA returns
Administrative staff celebrated after receiving notice of a rebate from the Quality Assurance Agency this week. The agency wrote to all institution heads saying it had collected too much money from...
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Spellbinder lifts city spirits
A Writer's World
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel based on a visit to Surinam: "I do not intend, in giving you the history of this royal slave,...
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Roses and Reds for the 'traitor' in tights
The Dancer Defects
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A moral crusade born of threats and expedience
Harry Truman and Civil Rights
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Set si(gh)t(e)s on a mess
Labyrinth Revisited
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Colourful devotee with a passion for repeating his past
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia
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Diggers, Quakers, movers, shakers
Britain in Revolution