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...
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Modules makes sense
A debate is fermenting over the allegedly widely differing standards of nominally identical honours degrees in the United Kingdom. These are awarded by the 104 establishments now empowered to do so....
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New year wishes... Gillian Shephard
This coming year will offer great opportunities to exploit the benefits of the merger of the Departments for Education and Employment. My department can now take a unified approach to the whole span...
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New year wishes... Diana Warwick
With one wave of the Good Shephard's crook, we could move to a better deal in three ways for students in higher education. A new loan scheme with an extended repayment method: would reduce students'...
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PFI tests water
FINANCE. Not too many people could have spoken knowledgeably about the Private Finance Initiative this time last year. That is hardly surprising. It was only launched in higher education in March....
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Office upheaval
No sooner had Sir William Stewart vacated his post as the Government's chief scientific adviser, symbolically ending a period of big change in science policy, than another upheaval ensued, with the...
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V-cs take controls of joint audit vehicle
QUALITY. A quality breakthrough finally came in September of this year when vice chancellors won the three-year battle with the funding councils for control of the quality assurance process in...
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The 'nous' test
QUALIFICATIONS. Tomorrow's university students could be taking degree standard vocational qualifications, having completed a predominantly vocational education at school. Government proposals for NVQ...
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Newspeak trips off all tongues
POLITICS. Westminster watchers in further and higher education could be forgiven for feeling in a spin after 1995. For there was something decidedly circular about the arguments advanced by...
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Loans boycott threatens banks
STUDENTS. Last May the National Union of Students called an extraordinary conference to debate student funding. It promised to be a watershed event, marking a radical change in NUS policies. It...
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To forgive but not forget
SOUTH AFRICA. F rank Mdlalose," called out a white man in received English pronunciation. A cheer erupted from the almost all-black audience seated amid the Victorian splendour of the Durban City...
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Lost languages gain a strong voice
EASTERN EUROPE. The year 1995 could go down in history as the year in which the validity of a Polish presidential election was challenged over whether or not the successful candidate could be said to...
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Giving up the day job
Fed up with the research assessment exercise? Is it your New Year's resolution to get out ofhigher education? Five former academics tell The THES how their extracurricular activities provideda means...