Fallacies, fees and PhDs
Academics I meet agree that lack of money is a primary reason for student drop-out. Also, the exclusive universities at the top of certain league tables are infamous for their rich, even royal...
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Fallacies, fees and PhDs
Do Oxbridge academics lose their rationality when writing on the emotive subject of Oxbridge entry? Vernon Bogdanor argues in The Mirror of June 20 that if "they are to continue to do good work (in...
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Pet criticisms
Well, I never! David Hockney says there's "no such thing as a dumb artist"; and that Cezanne (who stated "painting is optics") was "anti-optical" ("An optical disillusion", THES, June 16). True,...
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Scaling for fairness
A strength of our university system is that we are still able to debate ideas in an open-minded way. David Barron (Letters, THES, June 23) notes that my faculty board will be debating the merits of...
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Problems at Hull
I am writing to clarify some of the issues raised in Whistleblowers in recent months, particularly two relating to the old school of management at the University of Hull. The first of these relates...
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Art-felt complaint
So The THES is up to its old tricks again. An imposing sidebar "Digital research in the arts" (THES, June 23) leads to four pages announcing predictable digitisation of humanities' texts without so...
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Ripon and York St John scraps 29 jobs
Twenty-nine lecturing jobs will be lost over the next four years and 14 created at the College of Ripon and York St John. The college will close its Ripon campus from September next year. It said...
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Oxford engineering plc spins off yet again
The department of engineering science at the university of Oxford has announced its fifth spin-off company in 12 months. Oxford BioSignals will develop signal processing. The department has also...
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Work, but watch your hours, says Boswell
(Photograph) - Undergraduates should be encouraged to have part-time jobs but limits should be placed on excessive hours, according to shadow education minister Tim Boswell (pictured) Mr Boswell, who...
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Faraday Partnership centres announced
Four new centres of academe-industry collaboration, part of the Faraday Partnerships initiative, backed by almost Pounds 9 million from the government, were announced on Wednesday. They are: * The...
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Invite to have your say at the CVCP
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has invited submissions to its review of higher education funding. Lecturers, parents and schools are among those invited to comment. The funding...
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No surprises in employment study
Employment and study patterns of students remain unchanged on last year, according to the ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency. Hesa's destination survey found 69 per cent in employment, 21 per cent in...
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Unions accept 3.3 per cent pay offer
All six college unions have accepted the 3.3 per cent pay offer. The six, which include lecturers' union Natfhe, the Association of College Managers, Unison and the T&G have agreed with the...
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Academy caters for medium projects
The British Academy has launched a Larger Research Grant Scheme, worth Pounds 500,000, for medium-sized pilot projects and field studies in the humanities and social sciences. Academics will be able...
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Scientists take trip down memory lane
Neuroscientists at Edinburgh University believe they have discovered the molecular machine that is central to learning. Evidence suggests that when we learn, the connections between two nerve cells...