Times Higher Education Supplement 2005 alan Ryan - Abstracts

Times Higher Education Supplement 2005 alan Ryan
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'A possibility is that a degree is used by employers as an easy way to draw a line between the folk they are willing to employ and those they are not'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'If students are really going to keep their noses to the grindstone for 40 weeks a year, they won't have much time to earn money on the side'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'In American public universities, if you want to have a good philosophy department, you need politicians to feel good about your football team'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'In a rational world, non-traditional students would be able to try a course without getting UKPd8,000 in debt. So why not waive fees for the first term?".(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'Sir Howard Newby must sometimes feel a bit like Buridan's ass, and he must sometimes wonder whether Hefce isn't a Pushmi-Pullyu'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The DfES seems to be a transit lounge, where junior ministers on their way up, down and sideways are parked before heading for their next stopover'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The lecturer will strike a bargain. He will provide handouts and the term paper will require students to tell the lecturer what the handouts told them'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The QAA is obviously adopting a policy of reculer pour mieux sauter and abandoning subject reviews to preserve the rest of its operations'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'The US experience when low-income students drop out suggests that efforts to expand access amid a top-up fee regime may hinder social mobility'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'We should never let anyone change the question, and never forget that excellent means "excellent at". What are you good at? is the question to ask'.(league tables for educational institutes)(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
'What might we sensibly do about reforming degree classification? What we could usefully do, as usual, is steal the Americans' clothing'.(Opinion)EducationAlan Ryan
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