George Huxley Papers - Series V Subseries Vb
Series V: Newspaper clippings, collected by George L. Huxley, arranged in different subjects and chronologically (i.e. Archaeology, Education, Royal Irish Academy, Greek Culture, Art/Museums/Exhibitions, Linguistics, Obituaries, Railroad, Foreign Press)
Subseries Vb: Education (newspaper clippings)
Note: Flat storage (drawers #83 -84)
Folder 1
A) Reforms/Restructuring/Closures
The Independent
Anger and outrage at the corporate model, 25 January 2007, by Susan Bassnett
Plans for major governance reforms voted down by opponents of Oxford vice-chancellor
The Belfast Telegraph
Devastating hit list of schools, 30 January 2007, by Deborah McAleese
In light of the Bain Report, 457 schools are under threat of closure
The Independent
Why four-year degrees make for champions, 5 May 2005, by Andrew Oswald
Why England’s universities should move away from three-year degrees toward four year degrees
University Record
Review of the year, 10 May 2005
Restructuring for dummies….
The Irish Times
Radical changes planned for Cork University, 12 May 2005, by Barry Roche
Series of radical restructuring moves will reduce university’s seven faculties to four colleges
The Irish Times
Higher education sector must do better, 25 July 2005, by Patrick Cunningham
Higher education should be about making much broader range of knowledge and skills open to everyone
The Irish Times
Trinity restructuring leads to new schools, 2 August 2005, by John Downes
Controversial restructuring plans approved by board of Trinity College Dublin results in reduction of faculties and establishment of new schools
International Times
Universities need reform but not an audit culture, 14 September 2005, by Kieran Allen
UCD experiences corporate model of governance being imposed and last vestiges of academic self-management removed
The Times
Latin and Greek face expulsion, 11 June 2004, by Tony Halpin
Latin and Greek being scrapped at GCSE and A level by the country’s largest examinations board
The Independent
Let our academics have some space for their scholarly pursuits, 1 July 200, Brenda Gourley3
What’s needed is “recognition that knowledge is acquired through research, synthesis, practice, and teaching”, according to Ernest Boyer
The Independent
German envoy condemns decline of language teaching in universities, 14 December 2002, by Richard Gamer
German ambassador Thomas Matussek voices distress over closure of language course at British universities
The Times
I will defy the watchdog, 2 February 2000, by Bruce Charlton
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education to be ignored by Bruce Charlton at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Independent
View from here, 12 February 1998
What is happening in higher education is dumbing down of system Susan Bassnett under pretext of improving quality for all
The Belfast Telegraph
Queen’s new term to start amid turmoil, 21 September 1998
Students preparing to return to Queen’s may find a campus in Garry Grattan uproar as lecturers and management go head to head over plans to axe 100 jobs
The Times
Management consultants take aim at Oxford elite, 1 April 1996, by John O’Leary
Proposed changes within Oxford to give academic departments stronger role and to introduce central administration, in line with other universities
Unknown Source
In praise of useless knowledge, 2 April 1996, by Roger Scruton
Apparent inefficiency of Oxbridge tutorial system is true glory-real value of university lies not in research but in scholarship
Unknown Source
University restructuring has done more harm than good, date unknown, by Sean Barrett
Restructuring process in universities has undermined academic standards and damaged collegiality
Folder 2
B) Funding
The Trinity News
Coca-Cola to pay Euro 1m in economics lectures, 25 April 25, 2006, Patrick O’Grady
Donation by Coca-Cola is latest in series of controversies about private funding of College
The Trinity News
Hasta la vista? 25 April 2006, by David Molloy
Future of languages at Trinity in serious doubt after College authorities unveiled dramatic funding cuts
The Irish Times
Government must fill the university fees gap, 10 May 2005, by Danny O’Hare
Ireland’s ambitious national educational goals cannot be realized without fundamental reform of third-level education
The Irish Times
Smarm school, 30 April 2005, Eddie Holt
Minister of Education remarks to “reinforce the importance of developing non-Exchequer income streams” is prime example of obtuse and oily guff
The Guardian
What’s the point of the funding council? 4 May 2004, by Donald MacLeod
Nothing to stop universities from dropping important subjects if they are unpopular or expensive but there is pressure for that to change
The Dublin Telegraph
Classicists are both use and ornament, 10 May 2003, by Tom Utley
All academic disciplines benefit society and economy, whether in direct and obvious way or not
The Independent
Time for Oxford to stand up for itself, 29 May 2000, by Timothy Garton Ash
Oxford undergraduate tutors are highly skilled, badly paid, desperately overworked, and subjected to ludicrous bureaucratic red tape
The Economist
A sorry state, 1 July 2000, by Andrew Oswald
Public funding of universities too low to pay senior professors an enormous amount, resulting in precipitous decline of British universities
The Financial Times
A course leading to academic excellence, 22-23 July 2000, Michael Prowse
Britian’s universities are underfunded and over controlled but US Ivy League model is not answer
The Independent
Comment, 14 December 2000, Peter Hennessy
As a nation, we are now much less certain of value of university education
The Independent
View from here-Money-it’s an academic issue, 18 February1999, by Susan Bassnet
Would you advise anyone to go for career in education these days? Nonsense about professionalism has been swallowed by funding bodies
The Independent
Institutions compete for funding from the next, 30 July 1998, by Stephen Pritchard
Research Assessment Exercise University of London College develops policy of using college funds, including money from selling John Constable’s art, to boost its RAE rating
The Independent
View from here, 29 October 1998, by Susan Bassnett
A great deal of anxiety in high education, much of it financial
The Telegraph
Schools cash boost to improve standards, 15 December 1998, by Gary Grattan
Additional cash being pumped into Northern Ireland’s education budget to be devoted to further improving standards in schools
The Independent
Oxford dons vote against business school project, 5 November 1996, by Charlie Bain
Plans for L40m business school postponed amid controversy over L20m donation from Middle-eastern financier, Wafic Said
Unknown Source
Lucre made the spires what they are, 9 November 1996, by John Patten
Don’s parliament votes down ‘tainted’ donation by Wafic Said to build business school, ignoring their long tradition and acting out of malice
The Financial Times
Nightmare in the dreaming spires, 10 November 1996, by Tony Jackson
Oxford rejects L20m from Saudi businessman Wafic Said to build business school
The Telegraph
Learning and earning, 12 December 1988, by Boris Johnson
Oxford plans to stem the ‘brain drain’ with bonuses
Campus News
Provost warns staff of crisis as College “cut to the bone,” date unknown, by John Kenny
Lecturers jobs are under threat by budget cuts at Trinity College
Folder 3
C) Testing/Assessments/Research
The Independent
The tyranny of league tables and endless exams, 25 August 2006
League tables do not serve best interests of students and encourage rigid style of teaching tailored towards getting pupils to pass exams
The Guardian
Wish they weren’t here? 19 April 19 2005, by Jimmy Leach
Explanation of why and how The Guardian produces university league tables
The Guardian
The Guardian University guide, 28 May 2002
What the league tables say
EL 10
The sky’s the limit for those in research, 16 January 2001, Yvonne Healy
John Hegarty developed an ambitious laser technology research plan and came away with funding to tune of L1 million per annum
The Independent
Real research can’t be graded, 18 January 2001, by Andrew Oswald
Government’s attempt to measure quality of research in universities by special committee will mean death knell of originality
The Guardian
A write off, 24 April 2001, by Les Back
While today’s research style may be “RAEable”, it’s become so unreadable it risks losing its audience
The Guardian
Opinion, 19 June 2001, by Christopher Ball
Time to abolish the research assessment exercise
The Guardian
Down the drain, 10 July 2001, by Geoffrey Alderman
Proposed radical overhaul of university quality assurance arrangements is public acknowledgment of systems failure after approval five years ago
Anthropology Today
Administering creativity, April 1999, by John Davis
Presidential Address delivered to the RAI in June 1998 on creativity and John Davis consequences of ways in which creative activity is organized and paid for
The Independent
View from here, 3 June 1999, Susan Bassnett
League tables and dullards quibbling about trivia are not the best way to assess anything
The Independent
Your Views-At last, the ‘quality’ regime exposed, 19 February 1998
Multiple letters re. Susan Bassnett’s article on Quality Assessment Exercise
The Independent
View from here, 30 July 1998, by Susan Bassnett
So much time is spent translating Quality Assurance Agency documents that we may forget what university is for
The Independent
Poaching on the increase as fight for funds begins, 30 July 1998
Academic transfer market is hotting up…reward is millions of pounds of Government research funds
The Independent
More research not needed, 6 August 1998, by Stephen Logan
Welfare of students and university teachers sacrificed to ‘research’ much of it dismally bogus
Unknown Source
Research funds go to elite colleges, 25 January 1997, by Judith Judd
Government advisers decide to give elite British universities biggest ever share of research funds
The Irish Times
It’s not too late to practice, 8 April 1997, by Eamonn Maguire
Taking students through the content and structure of oral Irish exams
The Independent
Universities rated in L4m assessment exercise, 26 August 1989, by Rosie Waterhouse
Research funding is dependent on university ratings at cost of L4m and more than million pieces of paper, taking18 months to complete
Folder 4
D) People in Education
Unknown Source
Digital World, November 1997
Waterford Institute of Technology confers 1535 students
The Times
Oxford president plotted don’s death for good of college, November 26, 1994, John O’Leary
Recent divorce cause of 1985 suicide of historian Trevor Aston, according to Sir Kenneth Dover, former president of Oxford college
The Observer
One Sparrow makes a summer, 1 September1985
John Sparrow, former Warden of All Souls, at center of heated, passionate and rather silly dispute on women fellows and dons at Oxford
Unknown Source
Palace coup rocks University College, 2 August [?], by Will Woodward
Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith forced to resign as provost and president of University College London for failure to lead and lack of vision
The Observer
Don’s suicide note blames ‘treachery’, date unknown, by Dean Nelson
Opinion regarding suicide of Professor David Regan
Unknown Source
Clear-cut victory for new Trinity Provost, date unknown, by Emmet Oliver
Physicist John Hegarty elected the 43rd Provost of Trinity College after significantly outpolling his four opponents
Unknown Source
The maths man with an eye for puzzles, date unknown, by Eugene Moloney
Irishman Sir William Rowan Hamilton, inventor of Rubic Cube of his day changing face of modern mathematics, commemorated
Folder 5
E) Opinion/Letters to the editor
Guardian Education
Not strictly for the birds, 10 May 2006, John Sutherland
“Human mobbing”, defined as an impassioned, collective campaign by co-workers to exclude and punish a targeted worker, and education
The Irish Times
‘Poraching’ of academic staff and food science, 2 September 2006
Staff transfer from TCD to UCD
The Irish Times
New third-level funding scheme, 2 May 2005, by David Harold Cox
Third-level education in the arts
The Irish Times
Role of university researchers, 22 July 2005, by David Limond
Trinity College Research Stuff Associations
The Belfast Telegraph
WriteBack, 17 February 2004
Multiple letters re. Secondary education system
The Irish Times
Neglect of Irish studies, 15 May 2003
UCD and TCD attitude to vacant chairs in Irish studies
Unknown Source
No Classics at QUB, 30 October 2002, by Sheila Chillingworth
Classics Department in Queen’s University
Unknown Source
Closure of Classics at Queen’s, 31 October 2002, by Gerard McNamee/Padraig Crummey/Father Gerard MaGee/Brendan Burns
Classics Department in Queen’s University
Guardian Education
Opinion, 24 April 2001, by Gillian Evans
Whiff of police state when private emails can be read and phones tapped
Guardian Education
Opinion, 10 July 2001
Higher browsing
The Independent Schools cannot right race legacy
10 September 1996 Multiple letters regarding the under-achievement of Afro-Caribbean children
Unknown Source
Oxford will not shun Said’s gift, 8 November 1996
Vote against new business school site, not the donor or benefaction
Unknown Source
Oxford dons fear for green space, 11 November 1996
Multiple letters regarding proposed sited for Oxford’s business school
Unknown Source
Multiple letters, date unknown
Controversy of learning Latin in school
Folder 6
F) Miscellaneous
The Financial Times
FT Universities – Special report, 3-4 May 2003
Multiple articles re Britain’s higher education sector at its critical point
The Independent
Education (special section), 29 May 2003
Multiple articles on education
The Independent
Education (special section), 26 September 2002
Multiple articles on education
Financial Times
UK Universities, 7-8 April 2001
FT survey-multiple articles on UK universities
The Independent
Education (special section), 24 February 2000
Multiple articles on education
The Independent
Education (special section), 16 March 2000
Multiple articles on education
Financial Times
UK’s top universities, 8-9 April 2000
Survey-multiple articles on UK universities
The Independent
Education (special section), 29 June 2000
Multiple articles on education
The Independent
Education (special section), 18 February 1999
Multiple articles on education
The Financial Times
Mastering Information Management, 5 April 1999
Multiple articles on information management
The Independent
Education (special section), 22 April 1999
Multiple articles on education
The Independent
Education (special section), 30 July 30 1998
Multiple articles on education
The Independent
Education (special section), 10 December 1998
Multiple articles on education
Election Manifesto
The Choice for Trinity, July/August 1997
Multiple articles on University Senate election
International Institute Newsletter for Asian Studies
Summer 1997
Multiple articles on Asian Studies
Campaign News
Campaign for Oxford, November 1993
Multiple articles on news about Oxford University