Times Higher Education Supplement 2003 Alison Wolf - Abstracts

Title	Subject	Authors
Times Higher Education Supplement 2003 Alison Wolf
'Affirmative action in the US is a legacy of the crime of slavery. It also created its own backwash of racial bitterness and individual injustices'.(Opinion)(analysis of UK university admissions system)	Education	Alison Wolf
'I cannot see any good argument for giving indiscriminate subsidies to students from countries richer than our own. The less we do so, the better'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'If there are clear objective rules for selection and grading, should we worry about whether men's and women's results are identically distributed?'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'I have no evidence that essay-writing skills are of much use in the job market outside of academe and the civil service. Driving is something else'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'In destroying German-speaking culture, Hitler laid the foundations for America's contemporary dominance and a truly global academic language'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'It's surprising that the government ever proposed differential fees. What one would have predicted for our system is underfunded uniformity'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'I was, and am, utterly bemused by Oxbridge's arrogant belief that abandoning exams for interviews meant they would be "fair" to everyone'.(Opinion)(strictly supervised exams should carry more weight than interviews)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Millions of our citizens log on to chatrooms, find old school friends and look at porn without the benefit of a publicly funded campaign'.(Opinion)(the UK government's apparent obsession with e-learning)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Recruiting sufficient maths teachers has been near impossible. So fewer pupils get good maths teaching, while the importance of maths has risen'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'The history of the QAA shows how supine our dignitaries have become... Dr Johnson would not see v-cs as fit champions for a sector in crisis'.(Opinion)(higher education sector in UK in crisis)	Education	Alison Wolf
'The structure of both A levels and AS levels is decided as though the universities were minor shareholders from beyond the Andes'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'We should, by now, understand that universities can't produce completely "work-ready" employees any more than workplaces can take over education'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Winners from local pay bargaining might be some Scottish universities; biggest losers will probably be the lower-status London universities'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf

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