Balancing teaching and research
IN TRADITIONAL modernist cultures of higher education, research and teaching have become separated. These two activities are viewed as oppositional, orchestrated by the RAE, and there are now moves...
IN TRADITIONAL modernist cultures of higher education, research and teaching have become separated. These two activities are viewed as oppositional, orchestrated by the RAE, and there are now moves...
I WISH to support, from a "vocational" subject area and a "new" university, the views of Philip Cerny (THES, April 18). Our profession, if allowed to operate without the sort of interference and...
PHILIP Cerny is wrong in putting the research versus teaching debate solely in terms of whether teachers do or do not carry out research. Equally important is to seek proper recognition for...
PAULA MURPHY, in her opening paragraph on the demolition of statues in Dublin (THES, April 11) invests the whole proceedings with a national fervour which is somewhat at variance with the various...
I HAVE not read the Romanian 1994 Education Act, but from my experience of the 51国产视频 of Cluj/Kolozsv r the proposed creation of a Hungarian language faculty of law within this university (THES,...
WHAT A pleasure it was to see my honest colleague, Jim Bulpitt, write in your pages about his decision to vote Tory in the forthcoming election with such unremitting frivolity (THES, April 18). How I...
BY GIVING the percentage of students in constituencies to two decimal places (eg 14.92 per cent in Leeds Northwest) (THES, April 18) you suggest that student numbers can be estimated accurately to...
MYCONCERN about Niall Ferguson's counterfactual history is its likely misuse (THES, April 4). Virtual history will be used to try and legitimise the revival of policy or political ideology that has...
Monday. I join the Royal Research Ship Discovery in the port of Vigo, Spain. Meet the old and a few new faces in the ship's crew and the other scientists sailing with me. It is a multicultural...
When the polytechnics became the latest wave of new universities in 1992 there was a scramble to retain or adopt an attractive city title. But as many of the older universities had already...
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