Paris, 17 Feb 2005 Over 40 nations and around 20 international organisations, including ESA, have come together in Brussels for two days, today and tomorrow, to exchange views on policies related to...
Graduates debt will reach £48,825 in 2023, says report Students who graduate in 2023 face debts of £43,825, four times the amount accumulated by their present-day counterparts, according to new...
Universities will offer a bewildering array of bursaries and benefits to students in 2006 - Times Higher , February 11 UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Anxious about the cost of studying at university in 2006...
The fifth anniversary of David Blunkett's Greenwich speech, which set out the Government's vision for higher education, and the release of papers giving some of the background to its 50 per cent...
The suggestion that there is a "perception in universities that some managers are little more than failed academics or glorified administrators" is offensive ("Manager roles fail to attract core...
Does it not occur to the chief executive of the Leadership Foundation that academics may be right when they say that "in the hierarchy of things, for those who can do it the really high-quality...
Your article "Academics scorn TV lecture move" (February 4) contained several inaccuracies. First, it is not the case that "Channel 4 confirmed it was unlikely to renew its contract with the...
Frank Furedi attacks research ethics committees as limiting academic freedom (Working Knowledge, February 11). I am a member of both clinical and non-clinical ethics committees. I am not aware that...
The reaction of some of your columnists to the Durham memo on the teaching of controversial topics illustrates a one-dimensional understanding of "academic freedom" (Frank Furedi, for example). This...
The complaint of the subject librarian at Bangor University about its service being reduced to the level of a further education college is revealing in its ignorance ("Librarians under threat",...
"The process of literature searches is substantially de-skilled by online bibliographical resources". True, but only for bad literature searches. Presumably this demonstrates the quality of...
Jane Hutton of Warwick University criticises the recent funding council report on patterns of participation ("Hefce access study 'flawed'", February 11). I have no wish to defend the report in...
No one can be opposed to the idea of maximising the commercial benefits of academic research but there are, as the Lambert report says, "too many unsustainable spin-offs". The dispersal of public...
Ederyn Williams' commentary on the commercialisation of university research ("Uncle Sam's out in front, but we're hot on his heels", February 4) highlights how difficult it is to make international...
Your article on the talks between the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe was right to observe that all the principal issues have now been resolved between negotiators ("Merger details go...