Brown's bright idea is a bargain 1
John Mace's negative comments on chancellor Gordon Brown's financial support for students from poorer backgrounds are based on a superficial analysis ("Education, education, too much education?",...
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Brown's bright idea is a bargain 2
John Mace questions whether subsidising students from poorer backgrounds beyond 16 is good value for money. I have been part of two research studies with colleagues at the University of York. One...
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Brown's bright idea is a bargain 3
William Keenan (Letters, THES , August 23) has got the wrong end of the stick. There is no contradiction between falling academic standards and the existence of talented students with high...
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Cooke plan irrelevant
The Cooke committee's message that by 2010 new teachers should have a teaching qualification is irrelevant. ("Teaching 'licence' for all new lecturers by 2010", THES , August 23). Many institutions...
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Oxford equity adds up
Harold Perkin says that Oxbridge dons are "admissions amateurs" who used to sneak preferential treatment to the children of alumni ("Selection correction", THES , August 23). He contrasts this with...
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Where's wow factor?
We are surprised that a routine announcement by Luton University about vice-chancellor Dai John's retirement next year at the end of his five-year contract on his 60th birthday should arouse such...
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Take account of trade
If Christian Twigg-Flesner checks the law reports (Letters, THES , August 23), he will find that in the early 1980s an Iranian student successfully pursued a polytechnic that had advertised a "state-...
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Update: 12:45
London Institute gets research degree-awarding powers The London Institute has been granted research degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council. Previously, the five art and design colleges...
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Stem cells grown for first time Researchers at King鈥檚 College London claimed last night to have made stem cells from human embryos in the laboratory, the first group of scientists in the country to...
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Suicide warning after Cambridge student鈥檚 death Roche, the company that makes the malaria drug Larium, has added the risk of suicide to warnings to travellers prescribed the pills. Cambridge...
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Cambridge faces 拢20m yearly deficit Cambridge University is facing an expected annual deficit of 拢20 million within three years but has failed to bring in controls and planning of its budget...
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End seas of poverty, says Mbeki The time has come to overturn a world order based on the 鈥渟avage principle of the survival of the fittest鈥, Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, said at the...
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Update: 12:55
Student grants for young people in care Cumbria County Council is to give grants to young people in care who want to go to university or college. Four new and four existing higher education students...
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Don's diary: Clearing at Greenwich
Thursday, August 15: A-level results day 8am Bathway, London's largest students' union venue, is our clearing helpline base for the next few weeks. Brightly coloured banners hang from the roof of the...
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Poaching rises as grades soar
Universities are poaching candidates from rival institutions as record A-level grades tempt students to trade up from less prestigious courses. Some institutions are offering places on full-degree...