Times Higher Education Supplement 2004 Alison Wolf - Abstracts

Title	Subject	Authors
Times Higher Education Supplement 2004 Alison Wolf
'Adults who have a mathematics A level earn almost 10 per cent more on average than people who are like them in every other way'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Either the Tories really can't add up or they have found some magic source of funding. Incredibly, this seems to be what they believe...'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Have you noticed how the idea has spread that academics might be "over-teaching" at the expense of activities such as packing in more students?'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'It is far more glamorous to wine and dine people who can tell you about 3G mobile phones than to talk about improving bus punctuality'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Like most people, my word association went "Jersey-Bergerac-offshore trusts". In fact, the island regulary reinvents itself, with Japanese thoroughness' .(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Policies that were tried and trashed a while back resurface, gleaming and newly hatched. Yet the ministers and civil servants are completely unaware'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Professional engineering bodies have been pretty much alone in insisting that there are such things as absolute requirements for competence'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'The "best-endowed universities", Adam Smith argued, were "sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter"'.(Opinion)(Critical Essay)	Education	Alison Wolf
'There is no chance that universities will start funding long apprenticeships of the type that barristers, physicians or schoolteachers undertake'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'There is no reason why a city couldn't be committed to its university in ways that go beyond welcoming students for the money they spend on rents'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Today Britain enjoys the dubious distinction of being the only major country where it is government policy to make class a formal criterion for admissions'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Tuition fees in Sweden is a policy that dare not speak its name.... Higher Education must be free to anyone who is accepted'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf

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