Times Higher Education Supplement 2005 Alison Wolf - Abstracts

Title	Subject	Authors
Times Higher Education Supplement 2005 Alison Wolf
'A successful developer complained that all the architecture students spent their time designing opera houses... but how many do we build?'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Because it is hard to say anything definite about standards, it's intriguing to be told that in one area things are clear. People are getting cleverer'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'How can it be worthwhile for any selective university to run a local school? The only concrete return is pleasing the current Government'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'In a high unemployment economy, French young people have created a hierarchical, competitive tertiary system with strong similarities to our own'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'It is possible to be successful economically without great universities, but you cannot have great universities without a commitment to free inquiry'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Many agonise over the development of organised "sub-groups" of universities--Russell, Mainstream, 1994 and so on. I think that they signal salvation'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Much of the world (including the US) lives quite happily with a system in which lecturers are judge and jury... with no outside oversight'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Novel ideas remain largely the preserve of unorthodox individuals... people working outside the consensus and outside big organisations'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Some are convinced that an IT-based revolution is around the corner, but across the world people are opening universities of a most familiar kind'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'Technically, people were not sacked. They just did not get tenure. But the standards demanded for tenure were relentlessly high and non-negotiable'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf
'When the Tories came out against the new fee regime they were castigated as opportunists. So why don't the Lib Dems face a comparable attack?'.(Opinion)	Education	Alison Wolf

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