Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I have sat on the Memorial Bench in the Percy Thrower garden but nothing can compare with the cultural achievement of appearing on Blue Peter. I had hoped to demonstrate my dynamite tank made...
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Rise of the managerial cadre
Robert Welch argues that devolving administrative tasks to academics may be efficient but is damaging to the original purpose of universities. On the upper storey of the cloister of the Collegium...
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A measure of success
In the week the new science adviser is appointed, Mark Richmond considers the impact of the Office of Science and Technology. Many, including senior officials in the then Department of Education and...
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Apology call to Guildhall
Guildhall has yet to utter a word of regret on the victimisation by managers of a black senior law lecturer (THES, June 19). The shocking thing in this is that an academic institution is involved and...
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Latin lovers, unite
Nick Tate (THES, May 19) is right to point to the deplorable level of Latin literacy in our schools. Students at German universities who do not possess basic Latin skills, but who are studying core...
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Student loans fall-out
In "Opinion" (THES, June 2) you claim that it is the hard left celebrating after Derby. As an independent sabbatical officer not affiliated to a party, faction, or fan club I reject that claim....
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English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Crushes or crushed
Jennie Bristow presented a picture of students deliberately and ritualistically setting out to enter into casual sexual relationships with their lecturers in universities and colleges. She questioned...
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Crushes or crushed
It is a sign of the times that it should be left to a student, Jennie Bristow (THES, June 2), to launch a welcome and effective attack on the patronising moves afoot to police personal relations...
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Irish baulk at expansion
University teachers in Ireland have accused the government of incoherence in its strategy to deal with growing numbers of full-time students. The Irish Federation of University Teachers is...
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Woman with a human rights mission
Karina Maskalenko is a Russian human rights lawyer with a European mission. She says: "My client has been convicted of a murder he didn't do. But that is not the issue here. The European Court doesn'...
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No cash for five star is research's loss
It was ironic and serendipitous that my article on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's research funding formula (THES, June 9) appeared in the same issue as the report that departments...
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Student loans fall-out
Why is it not possible for those who have attempted to scupper the NUS review of student financial support to recognise that real students are in favour of MICL. I am not a member of the Labour Party...
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Student loans fall-out
Contrary to the impression given by your report of the National Union of Students' extraordinary conference in Derby on education funding (THES, June 2), the decision it took to campaign for free...
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Elitism on the wrong track
There is something rotten about Oxbridge. These universities get more public money per student than any others; they get highly qualified students; they can afford to offer staff more comfortable...