Higher costs and greater gains 1
Alan Ryan spent several years teaching at Princeton and has a research appointment at Stanford, but he betrays a lack of understanding of US higher education when he writes: "The cheapness of tuition...
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Higher costs and greater gains 2
The £5,000-a-year figure bandied about for tuition fees in the UK does not bear scrutiny. The private University of Buckingham charges £1,800 a term - £5,400 for a three-term year. It gets no public...
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Higher costs and greater gains 3
Students do not buy an education. They work to get a degree. To get good degrees, they work hard and are out of the labour market. Graduates may get high salaries, but this is because employers pay...
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Streamline degrees
Kevin Malone is right: it takes more than six to 12 months to produce a musician, a dancer or a doctor, indeed far more than three or four years of graduate study (Letters, THES, December 13). But...
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Talking up Fleming 1
Milton Wainwright (Letters, THES, November 22) criticises my feature (THES, November 15) for questioning Sir Alexander Fleming's contribution to the development of antibiotics. Neither I nor other...
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Talking up Fleming 2
Having worked under Sir Alexander Fleming and published three papers to correct myths and misinformation about penicillin's discovery, I wish to comment on John Waller's article. Waller's statement...
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In brief 1
Laurie Taylor is wrong to call the publication of Alison Wolf's Does Education Matter? a "wholly original" event. Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson open their The New Idea of a University (2001) by...
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In brief 2
Contract research staff are not the only university employees to benefit from the removal of fixed-term contracts ("Surrey contract staff win job security", THES, December 6). Loughborough University...
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In brief 3
Thames Water's graduate recruitment manager reportedly slates an applicant for saying "I was really keen to work for BP but I didn't get through so I applied to you" and another who said his...
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Faith simply portrayed
The front-page headline "Mary Warnock looks for God in a racy text" with a stained-glass image of the patriarch himself, inappropriately signalled your religious studies book reviews (THES, December...
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Conscious objector
Why did Susan Greenfield agree to review David Lodge's Consciousness and the Novel when she is self-confessedly not a literary expert ("Minds meet on a two-way street", THES, December 6)? Greenfield'...
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AUT is all for fairness
I was surprised that the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England accepts the excuses from some higher education institutions that the Association of University Teachers is delaying the use of...
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Merry Christmas
The latest news service is taking a break over the festive period and will resume on 2 January 2003.
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EU innovation performance still needs improving, but there are encouraging signs for the future
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 The 2002 European Innovation Scoreboard, published today by the European Commission, reveals that the EU's innovation performance is still lagging behind the US and Japan,...
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Integral's first look at the gamma-ray Universe
Paris, 18 Dec 2002 INFO 10-2002. ESA's gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Today Integral's first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were presented in Paris, France....