Lawyer takes chair on troubled campus
The University of Portsmouth has elected a new chair of governors, promising a clean break for the troubled new university. Caroline Williams, a local solicitor, was elected as chair on December 20,...
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Budget battle leaves colleges trembling
United States universities and colleges were caught in a waiting game this week as President Bill Clinton and Republican leaders struggled to agree on spending cuts to balance the budget within seven...
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Life's sentences
Oral history is often neglected as a research tool, but Anton Gill explains how pertinent it was in his study of concentration camp survivors. I came to oral history research as an absolute beginner...
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Seeing off the school bullies
Supporters of comprehensives are to meet in Oxford this month to combat what they see as a right-wing propaganda campaign to discredit a successful state system. Lucy Hodges charts the history of the...
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From the laboratory to the inventor
Richard Swinburne argues that it is perfectly rational to postulate the existence of God in terms that do not contradict scientific theory. Reasons for believing that there is a God have been around...
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Comprehensive schools: the history
Richard Pring and Geoffrey Walford explain why they think comprehensives are worth fighting for. The idea for the comprehensive school, where children of all backgrounds and abilities would be...
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Chapter and verse?
An academic in Germany believes he has found the Bible that Luther translated and which sparked the Reformation. His colleagues are not so sure. Jennie Brookman reports. "Discovered: Martin Luther's...
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Dunce upon a time...
(Photograph) - Dunce upon a time... Before comprehensives, children were divided by the 11-plus exam, with the "brighter" ones going to grammar schools from which they could continue to university...
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Two reports and a fraught future
This year in education we will learn the truth or falsity of the Chinese aphorism that to live in interesting times is a curse rather than a benefit. Two reports awaited with interest are those from...
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Tackle lunatics over asylum
Universities should lead the fight against xenophobic EU laws governing refugees. Ghanaian Kingsley Ofusu survived to tell a gruesome story of murder at sea. His brother and seven other West African...
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Rhyme and reason for nurseries
The higher education sector must recognise that in an era of tight public spending control, the educational needs of children must take precedence, says Josh Hillman. Britain is in the foothills of...
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Nolan number-crunchers
You included two useful, and contrasting, contributions on the Nolan inquiry on standards in public life (Opinion, THES, January 5). However, two other issues about further education corporations...
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Flowers for the engineer
I had the great good fortune to visit several universities and research institutes in China, Taiwan, Japan and India this year. My university, Natal, attaches strategic importance to the development...
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In a region of error
Stephen Court claims to have discovered the next wave of universities - the regionals (THES, January 5). Citing the University of Humberside as an example, he suggests that the market scope of such...
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Re-engineering the learning business
Detlef Mueller-Boeling (World View, THES, December 22) gave an interesting account of higher education as a business, which it clearly is. We provide a service of quality for a price to a mix of...