ߣߣÊÓƵ

Search

150,532 results
Page 4898 of 150532 results

  1. Leader: No marks for grant ambition

    Government grant letters are not designed to be models of peerless prose bursting with vision and optimism. But this week's missive to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (which was so...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  2. Leader: Degrees of variation

    It will come as no surprise to academics (or graduates) that degree standards vary within as well as between universities. Institutions must take seriously the Quality Assurance Agency's examples of...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  3. Bring on those happy bunnies 1

    Although it is true that many "student leaders at Russell Group universities have threatened to boycott the national student satisfaction survey" ("Student threat to boycott survey", January ), King'...

    #Letters

  4. Bring on those happy bunnies 2

    Like Frank Furedi ("In pursuit of the happy bunnies", January ), I also used to think that the national student satisfaction survey was a waste of time and money. Downloading the data from the...

    #Letters

  5. Bring on those happy bunnies 3

    Since when did good learning take place by ignoring the points of view, needs and wishes of the learners? By dismissing student surveys as mere concern for image, Frank Furedi supports the...

    #Letters

  6. Socially acceptable 1

    As chair of the Council of the Academy of (Learned Societies for the) Social Sciences, I welcome the Economic and Social Research Council's report that was covered in a shabby and shoddy way in The...

    #Letters

  7. Socially acceptable 2

    Rather than bemoaning the demise of quantitative analysis in the social sciences ("Time to crunch some numbers", January ), it might be more useful to try to understand why this might have happened....

    #Letters

  8. Socially acceptable 3

    Educating tomorrow's social workers is related not only to workforce planning but also to the Department of Health campaign to recruit higher student numbers. Since the payment of a bursary and...

    #Letters

  9. Don't detest debate

    Raphael Salkie claims that my views on intelligent design are "detestable" (Letters, January ). I have taught and researched biology for more than 30 years, have published on the history and...

    #Letters

  10. Degree of gender bias 1

    Miles Hewstone writes: "More than 80 per cent of today's psychology graduates are women, which may have something to do with a lack of understanding of what a psychology degree involves and just how...

    #Letters

  11. Degree of gender bias 2

    What, exactly, is the reader supposed to conclude from Miles Hewstone's comments about women psychology graduates? That women are intrinsically given to misunderstanding and incapable of wanting to...

    #Letters

  12. Degree of gender bias 3

    If Miles Hewstone is genuinely concerned about "teaching students more effectively", he could make a start by getting his facts straight. Thomas Mann did not write The Glass Bead Game . John C....

    #Letters

  13. Two-quid tycoon

    Well, academic salaries must have hit skid row if additional earnings from academic publishing "in the thousands of pounds" can be regarded as "small fortunes" ("Shelf-made wealth of textbook tycoons...

    #Letters

  14. Say what?

    I am fascinated by research claiming that millions of people in developed countries are not literate; there has usually been some fancy footwork to get to the shockingly high figures. Your report of...

    #Letters

  15. Support staff 1

    As a lecturer at Westminster University, I was dismayed to see that representatives of Westminster Students' Union have taken a stand at odds with the National Union of Students ("Strike a blow for...

    #Letters