Times Higher Education Supplement 2004 alan Ryan - Abstracts

Times Higher Education Supplement 2004 alan Ryan
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'95 per cent of US academics are not involved in fundraising; their role is to do their jobs well neough to give donors reason to carry on donating'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Almost everything wrong with UK higher education, from miserable salaries to under-prepared students, is the direct result of Tory policies'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'It is an odd reversal. Once, we mocked US schools for their multiple-choice tests and predigested answer plans, but now we insist on orthodoxy'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'I wince at the very thought of being vulnerable to an enraged government looking for UKPd60 million and a Boston prosecutor looking for scalps'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Motives for pushing for an extra point or two are not as urgent as 35 years ago, when a B average would keep you at a safe distance from Vietnam'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Students need help with two things: shedding the burden of unreasonable expectations and getting away from overprotective parents'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The "anything goes" mentality permeates US sports programmes, and the head coach in many universities can dictate to anyone on campus'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
The QAA is a waste of time and money, and to judge by its impact on Oxford, it reduces moderately rational persons to a state of neurotic anxiety'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The recent furore obscures the familiar truth that the deep divide is not between state and private schools but between the better-off and worse-off'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Vice-chancellorial posturing about maintaining their brand is a crime against underqualified students afraid of wasting tuition fees'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'What we suffer from--have suffered from for more than a century--is the inability to turn undergraduates' scientific training to industrial advantage'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'You may get muddled if you put the same label on different things and can't remember which is which, and we have now encountered that problem'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
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