Times Higher Education Supplement 2003 alan Ryan - Abstracts

Times Higher Education Supplement 2003 alan Ryan
TitleSubjectAuthors
'American parents think, rightly, that an education in how to think analytically is better value than narrow vocational courses'.(Opinion)(examination of religiously-affiliated universities in the US)EducationAlan Ryan
'Diversity doesn't seem to do any thing for education. Students did not think their education had improved since their college became "more diverse"'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Examination papers are set to produce no surprises. A student who has a reasonable memory ought to be able to get a lowish 2.1 without much difficulty'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Imagine the ruckus of UK institutions ranked 21 and below were handed "state university" status, while 20 and up were treated as flagships'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Improving affordability by cutting student aid is an idea that only a California Republican could advance with a straight face'.(Opinion)(higher education in US becoming unaffordable)EducationAlan Ryan
'In the States, most affirmative action helps the already advantaged - children of politicians and their friends, children of the rich, of alumni'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Is our biggest problem that of getting school-leavers from low social classes into Cambridge? What of the 33 per cent of students who never finish at UEL?'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'It is time to get out from under the government. For too long it has called the tune without any intention of paying the piper'.(Opinion)(government too intrusive in higher education sector)EducationAlan Ryan
Legacy of a witty populist.(Features)(Clark Kerr died 01 December 2003)(Obituary)(Biography)EducationAlan Ryan
'Modest but genuine tuition fees make most sense for middle-range institutions. They could get a long way on UKPd10,000 a student'.(Opinion)(analysis of higher education policy in UK)EducationAlan Ryan
'The fuss over graduate numbers... is about Oxford losing money on undergraduate teaching and hoping to turn a profit on taught masters degrees'.(Opinion)(what Oxford University should learn from Ivy League institutions)EducationAlan Ryan
'The message from the US is that there is just about nothing that UK universities can learn from admissions practices over here'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'What stops us working the same magic as California? The usual vanity that stops us learning from others and a lack of energy needed for radical change'.(Opinion)(the Californian higher education system)EducationAlan Ryan
This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.