Open and shut case of the arts faculty
Oporto opened the doors of its supermodern university arts faculty this month only to close them for a week - a postponement of the academic year paralleled only during Portugal's revolution against...
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Case of survival of the sceptical
If you enjoy a challenge, Santa Clarke's budget decisions for higher education must have been good news. A 12 per cent cut in income over three years, cuts in equipment and student grants, less...
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Choice of freedom or mediocrity
Nineteen ninety-six is going to be the year when the universities either break for freedom or settle for tutelage and mediocrity. Graeme Davies, lately chief executive of the 糖心Vlog Funding...
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New year wishes... John Akker
My education policy goal for 1996 is a vibrant high quality service with a genuine commitment to expanding access. The restoration of a partnership to achieve this should be the theme for all....
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New year wishes... David Blunkett
It is vital that our country moves beyond the artificial divisions between vocational and academic achievement. In the European year of lifelong learning, we can begin the task in schools and...
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Can-do culture gone bad
I refer to your editorial concerning the Nolan committee's inquiry (THES, December 15). The internal and external accountability of university managers have become dangerously attenuated, with the...
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New year wishes... David Triesman
My aspiration for a higher education policy advance in 1996 is to find a political party with a higher education policy. That means a policy which determines how big the learning and research task is...
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New year wishes... Ruth Gee
For too long further education has been stitched-up. Now we must do the stitching. And we can do it by realising the rhetoric of the "seamless robe", for too long a phrase and an inspiration. This...
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Teething troubles
I was surprised to see the newly revised Educational Counselling Service code of practice on international education dismissed as a marketing tool without real teeth (THES, December 15). My...
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Digging deeper
While I enjoyed reading Nicholas Saunders's review of recent archaeology books (THES, December 8) I was astonished by his assertion that the study of the interrelationship between cultural...
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Colleges in debt gloom
FURTHER EDUCATION. Most people working in further education knew that some colleges were in dire financial straits. But it was not until September this year that the seriousness of the problem was...
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Innovation fatigue
SCOTLAND. Higher education in Scotland went through a curiously ambivalent year, taking a high-profile lead on a variety of initiatives, which circumstances conspired to undermine. The Committee of...
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Father would like son would like father
I read Peter Wilmott's review of Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes: The Correspondence (THES, November 17) with great interest. I would like to draw attention to a factor in the Geddes-Mumford...
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New year wishes... Jim Murphy
Student hardship is now at record levels, and for many it has reached crisis point. It has to be the priority of every organisation involved in education to work towards finding a solution to student...
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New year wishes... Polly Hennessy
I would like to see a change in the way universities are run. For many sixth formers the future looks pretty grim. The problem, I feel, centres around grants or lack of them. Lack of money is a...