Don's Diary
MONDAY. Early start - a colleague picks me up from home in Crewe at 6.15am to give me a lift to work in Manchester. We discuss Crewe Alexandra's magnificent 4-0 win over Brighton, the week's work...
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An inside job or a set-up?
It is indisputably the case that genetic and biological factors play a non-trivial role in predisposing people to criminal behaviour. I firmly believe this because the past decade of biological...
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An inside job or a set-up?
Crime, a major London conference will hear next week, could be in the genes. As the argument that some people are biologically disposed to criminal behaviour has gained ground, Kam Patel asks...
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For weddings and inaugural lectures
Universities may have changed a lot since I became an administrator in the 1960s but at least that grand institution - the inaugural lecture - has survived. I am an unashamed sentimentalist about...
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Governing business, managing change
John Daniel (THES, January ) takes too narrow a perspective of management and as a result becomes confused. To identify management "away-day" profligacy is commendable but is undermined by the...
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Governing business, managing change
The call for the governance of the "new" universities to be modelled on that of the "old" universities (THES, January ) is highly questionable, as is Liz Allen's conclusion (THES, January 13) that...
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State schools' gripe with Oxbridge entry
As the head of a state comprehensive school with a good record of examination success and which regularly puts forward candidates for entry both to Oxford and Cambridge, I find Ruth Deech's remarks (...
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The expansion conundrum
There is a conventional wisdom that the Higher Education Funding Council for England uses to justify the gross inequities in funding revealed by Peter Knight's table (THES, January 13). It claims...
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Slowly, slowly, on selection
The post A-level university selection system the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and Universities and Colleges Admissions Service proposes to introduce from 1997 (THES, February 3) needs...
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Admissible evidence
The United Kingdom's university admission system is to be redesigned. Not before time. The speed with which agreement in principle has been reached by the main players seems, however, to have taken...
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New gold fuels old battles
Poor relations: Stephen Court says the 'new' universities are condemned to the slow lane in research. The deadline passed at the end of January for responding to the Government's review of higher...
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Germany's snobs left standing
Gerard Gilbert finds Germany's Fachhochshulen fighting for status. In Germany's higher education sector, the Fachhochschulen have always had to play the role of poor cousins to the universities...
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Freud and the `selfish gene'
Christopher Badcock's portrayal of Freud as the precursor to Richard Dawkins (THES, February 3) is unconvincing. Dr Badcock claims "the essential identity" of Freud's ideas on inheritance with "the...
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The expansion conundrum
The article by Huw Richards "V-cs push for further expansion" (THES, January 20) epitomises what is wrong with British higher education. On the one hand you and other newspapers carry regular letters...
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Professors in waiting
The Slovak conference of rectors has accused the new minister of education and science, Eva Slavkoska, of infringing university autonomy. She has delayed the submission of a list of 16 new professors...