The American incivil war
A GROUP of 48 academics and other intellectuals is addressing what is perceived to be a growing bad manners in American life. The commission, which was organised by the University of Pennsylvania,...
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Prudent college students toe a middle political line
Students are counting the cost of college like never before in the United States. The University of California at Los Angeles annual survey of college freshmen for 1997 shows a third of students now...
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Horse course safe bet to run and run
Traditionalists in higher education have found the past decade very trying. The ancient, civilised academic world is under siege from a host of new barbarians. The pillars of this ancient world -...
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More means less in Brownspeak
Today the higher education unions meet to decide whether they should collectively accept the pay offers now on the table. As The THES went to press it looked likely that most would. The Association...
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Musical chairs
(Photograph) - Musical chairs: Katherine Spencer, Adam Wright and Julie Stewart, all students from UK music conservatoires, have won scholarships worth Pounds 2,000 each from the Yamaha Music...
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The black hole in science ranks
British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto. Universities pay service to their paucity in technical disciplines with just a few access courses Look around any...
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Roots of the Ivy League
Stanford University is not an Ivy League university (THES, January 17). The Ivy League traces its origins to 1943 when the presidents of eight elite universities on East Coast of the United States...
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Terms of adjustment
Obviously the University and Colleges Employers' Association's most recent offer of a 2.9 per cent pay increase over each of two years to academic staff unions (THES, January 17) is a considerable...
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Terms of adjustment
With regard to Christine Cheesman's letter (THES, January 17), I would agree that the Government should be prepared to take responsibility for the cost of re-organisation. The proposals to change the...
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Terms of adjustment
Alan Thomson reports (THES, January 10) that Steve Rouse estimates that a ban on waiver clauses could cost the sector around Pounds 15 million a year. This is certainly a massive exaggeration. There...
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Consumer vulture culture
It was interesting to read two separate articles on transferable skills in the workplace (THES, January 17) but neither of them really addressed the issue of what the student thinks they get out of...
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Consumer vulture culture
I would like to say how much I agree with Andrew Marks's observations and critique of the current situation in higher education (THES, January 17). I am 32 and have been a full-time lecturer for...
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Consumer vulture culture
Is it not rather disturbing to find Jonathan Brill, who advocates a universal "employability test" in which he admits he has an interest, using inaccurate information as evidence of the sort of...
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Yanked purse string
Jon Marcus allows the "overseas study costs no more" myth to continue (THES, January 17). Perhaps administrators and academics from United States overseas programmes who come to the United Kingdom...
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Sell your body bits
Perhaps there is an easy way to avoid the risk of transferred animal diseases while saving money and the lives of those who die while awaiting organ transplants (THES, January 17).A very small...