Leader: Global rivalry is good for students
Four years after the furore over her rejection by Oxford University and subsequent departure to Harvard, Laura Spence still arouses strong passions in British higher education. Whether she was the...
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Leader: Data have use-by date
No one should be surprised universities are finding it hard to deliver ministers' promises to provide detailed information to replace teaching quality assessments. The claims made for the new system...
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Hardship scheme is 'ridiculous' (2)
I was amazed and annoyed to read the article on the abuse of hardship funds. I lived at home and worked part time to fund my way through my first degree. Applying for hardship funds was a lengthy and...
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Hardship scheme is 'ridiculous' (3)
I am glad that someone has finally exposed the ridiculous system of distributing hardship funds. After overspending in my first year, I paid off all my debts over the summer. I returned to university...
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Hardship scheme is 'ridiculous' (4)
The article on abuses of hardship funds reads ironically to those of us who recruit and support the forgotten people of higher education, the part-timers. One of the few ways part-time students will...
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Parent company (1)
The only thing that surprised me about the article "Sector caught in parent trap" (July 30) was that you were so surprised about the role parents play in admissions. Given how much of a financial...
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Parent company (2)
So, a spokesman for Leeds Metropolitan University believes "parents... should be able to look around a university at any time and sit in on a lecture to see what it's like". The spokesman is...
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Give Kerry fair trial
Your front page of July 23 was a masterpiece of Republican propaganda. It asserts that John Kerry "flip-flops", with no hint that this is a political position and is a matter for debate. In the...
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Quality qualms (1)
Jo Clough is right to be sceptical about the Government's proposal for a voluntary register of education providers ("Protect college title, heads say", July 30). But restricting the use of the...
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Quality qualms (2)
Concerns over the quality of English-language teaching to overseas students in private schools and colleges in UK are, unfortunately, justified. EnglishUK has a database of more than 1,100 non-...
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The sordid truth
Was Christopher Isherwood a noble man because he was homosexual, or was he a homosexual whose life was, well, sordid? (Letters, July 23). If political correctness prevents us from calling a footloose...
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All work and no play?
It seems a little harsh to label this year's graduates "shy of jobs" (News in brief, July 23). More and more students are spending term time in paid employment. And more are spending their second-...
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Make way for arts
If "'the creative industries' are universally regarded as the future of the British economy" ("Grants for the few", July 30), why does an article in the same issue on how other countries fund...
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Channel tunnel vision
Alison Wolf writes: ''France far excels the UK in its ability to plan and implement public-sector policies coherently, notably in health, transport and education'' (Opinion, July 30). Really? If she...
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Academics unite
Paul Mackney and Sally Hunt are right in thinking that elite academics need a union (Letters, July 30). The trouble is, it is not Natfhe, the Association of University Teachers or the offspring of...