A common attitude to league tables of international universities was summed up by Valerie Pecresse, France's Higher Education Minister, when she stammered in fury last February that the problem with...
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has enthusiastically backed the recent assertion by Sheila Gupta, Human ߣߣÊÓƵ Director at the University of Edinburgh, that it is vital...
Sally Feldman says the responsibility for financing disabled students is unclear
If alternative medicine can't produce scientific evidence of its efficacy, should universities be offering courses in it?An estimated 20 per cent of the UK population uses complementary and...
John Maxwell Turner, OBE, long-serving vice-principal of what is now Writtle College, has died.Mr Turner was born in Huddersfield on 5 June 1937 to Dorothy and Max Duncan Turner, an architect. He was...
Sir Drummond Bone seems to think that the criticism that UK higher education institutions recruit overseas students just for the money is the result of a very small fire giving off rather a lot of...
It was with interest I read your feature about further education colleges gaining the ability under the Further Education and Training Bill to award their own foundation degrees ("Fight or flight",...
Reading Robert A. Segal's Off Piste article ("Life and sport: a world apart", October 23) was like sitting through my first-year sociology of sport seminar in week one, "Myths and misconceptions"....
I noticed a report of a presentation by Miriam David at a seminar of the Helena Kennedy Foundation ("MPs question credibility of 14-19 diplomas", 9 October). At this she reported the results of her...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England confuses employability with graduate employment rates in its latest conjecture about the value of a graduate employment indicator ("Hefce moots...
Is it possible to argue that the higher proportion of firsts being awarded now doesn't mean that someone who scraped a first this year wouldn't have got one 30 years ago (Leader, 23 October)?To argue...
One place where standards obviously are falling is the statistics department of ߣߣÊÓƵ. How can you report ("Keep it stupid, simple", 23 October) survey results from about 500 readers...
What a sad indictment of our higher education system when it is stated in ߣߣÊÓƵ that the only thing that counts is jobs ("From where I sit", 16 October).Whatever happened to getting...
Thomas Docherty's letter (23 October) is a welcome sign of resistance to the hideous juggernaut of Quality Assurance Agency vacuity now lumbering through British higher education.I had always...
A croupier deals a hand at the ߣߣÊÓƵ Awards as guests try their luck at the charity casino. With the black-tie dress code setting the tone, vice-chancellors were among those doing...