HEFCE pulls franchise plug
FUNDING will be withdrawn for thousands of students studying overseas on courses franchised and run by British universities. The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England estimates that funding...
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Shocked of Swansea
STAFF at Swansea Institute were astonished to see the headline "Swansea Institute gives up its attempt to remain independent" (THES, November 28). We are not "attempting" to "survive alone" and we...
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A waste of Pounds 1 billion?
THE prospect of a Pounds 1 billion sweetener for the eventual "purchaser" of the Student Loan debt (THES December 12) borders on the offensive. Time was when such practice was seen to be competitive...
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A journal editor's lot
MAY we speak up for the poor woebegone journal editor who has received so much flak in your columns (THES, November 28 and December 5)? The image implied by one of your correspondents of the academic...
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Servants to one master
THE only surprising fact regarding the extension of the government's control of the universities is that anyone should be surprised ("The Coalition of Two Worlds" THES, December 5). The pattern of...
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Howells has the cash
HELEN Jones (THES, December 5) is wrong to say that "students aged over 50 cannot apply for access funding". They can. The requirement to have taken out a loan first does not apply to them. As Jones...
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'Implicit contempt' for teachers
THE "big thinking" of Mary Lord, director of training and education of the Training and Enterprise Council, includes most of the usual hokum from those who claim to represent the views of business...
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'Implicit contempt' for teachers
I HAVE a job. I live in the real world. I work in a university. Suggestions that I or my colleagues employed in universities do not have a real job are insulting. Mary Lord is right to say that her "...
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A journey into fear
Stephen Court argues that the casualisation of academic labour represents a greater threat to academic freedom than the ending of tenure (THES, December 5). I agree, but would like to add that the...
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Don's Diary
Monday To the office to plan the week: teaching tomorrow. Or perhaps not. Banners announce a general meeting of all students to discuss a university-wide strike, Tuesday 2 pm. Tuesday 2.15 is when I...
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Guessing game of how many colleges
THE NEWS that the proposed triple merger to form Derbyshire Regional University has collapsed after approval was given by the Further Education Funding Council goes to show what fragile things...
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The icemen cometh
(Photograph) - Leeds University medical student Tom Agombar (front), Alex Phillips of Edinburgh University (left) and Portsmouth University's Tim Saunders spent 12 hours in the cold store at an...
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The world in a grain of sand?
How Nature Works
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Warts of the martyr
Thomas Cranmer
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Who's who of gurus
The Book of Enlightened Masters