Failed medic lost appeal
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Bali, Hi!
Anyone wishing to heap either congratulations or opprobrium on the head of Ted Nield, who has taken the small step from composing Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press releases to...
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Professorial quality diluting
Just under 45 per cent of Oxford University academics are either professors or readers following this week's mass promotion. One hundred and sixty two elevations to professor and a further 99 to...
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Superphenix rises from nuke ashes
A physics professor at the prestigious College de France has walked out of a scientific committee that has approved turning the fast-breeder reactor Superphenix into a research reactor. Raymond Sen...
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Fact is, there are some absolutes
The distrust expressed within the social sciences towards the physical sciences - and, by extension, towards their practitioners - is profound. As someone from a physical science background (medicine...
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Harrowing times
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Small firms set for say in college futures
Britain's legion of local small-time entrepreneurs are set to become key players in the re-making of the university system, writes Simon Targett. Sir Ron Dearing, conducting a government-commissioned...
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Court setback for affirmative action
The United States Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal against a controversial court ruling on the role of race in college admissions. The ruling sidesteps the sensitive issue of how far...
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Last straws and red herrings
Anthea Millett (THES, July 5) is right to want to keep universities on board in the education and training of teachers. She is right to want a nationally available provision for all BEd and...
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A voice for lost innocence
For over 20 years some 100 children in one county were sexually abused while in care. Jane Tunstill was a member of the inquiry into what went wrong, but its report was never published. Now at last,...
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Franchise brochures jumped gun
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Mown down
Tragedy has struck at the Australian National University. Flotsam and Jetsam were elected visiting fellows with a free grant of grass earlier this year. But the tenure of the two lawn-mowing rabbits...
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Sinister surveillance
Sophisticated Gulf War technology is finding its way on to the high streets of Britain as electronic surveillance moves into a new and sinister era driven by powerful commercial interests. At a...
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V-cs join unions to demand cash
Australia's vice chancellors and the main academic union have joined forces for the first time to present a budget submission to the federal government. The submission is a crucial outcome of an...
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Last straws and red herrings
It was unfortunate that Anthea Millett's justification of a "national curriculum" for teacher education cited only one specific role for higher education in teacher education: the consolidation of...