Bargain basement 2
David Latchman (Letters, THES , January 23) makes a plea for a funding review of part-time students. What is needed is not a perpetuation of the divisive distinction between part-time and full-time...
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Get it taped
In December, I wrote a letter to Downing College, Cambridge, that I later sent to The THES ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES , January 9), about my daughter's interview for a place to...
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Pre-emptive action
The way Richard Davies, vice-chancellor of Swansea University, announced his plan to close five departments ("Swansea axes 35 jobs in unpopular courses purge", THES , January 30) could almost be...
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Better science
Cambridge University's decision to drop plans for a controversial primate research centre bodes well for humans and animals alike ("Primate centre 'was set to fail'", THES , January 30). The...
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Bare necessities
We receive a significant number of applications from students who are expected to achieve reasonable results in their post-16 qualifications but have failed maths and/or English GCSEs. These...
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Foiled by artifice
Wayne Hemingway's description of his son's reaction to university promotional material (Soapbox, THES , January 30) misses the point: admissions tutors look to recruit students who show evidence of...
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Don't do it
Ruth Morse raises an important issue ("So, Doctor, what exactly is your real name?", THES , January 30). There is no legal requirement to change your name on marriage, and the simplest solution is...
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Love is ... desirable, but it's by no means a 'right'
In invoking too many rights as 'universal', we trivialise the ones that matter, lose our sense of moral discrimination and overlook fundamental cultural differences, argues Bhikhu Parekh The language...
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Less of a Robin, more of a hood
Dick Turpin is often viewed as a lace-frilled gentleman robber but, writes Chris Bunting, recent research suggests that he was little more than a very violent thug Some are born great, some achieve...
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Ambassadors, go forth and multiply
Geoff Watts reports on a scheme that aims to halt a cycle of decline in maths and science by giving undergraduate role models credit for working in schools With young people's enthusiasm for science...
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Three enthusiastic envoys who went back to school
Helen Candy, Paul Canning and Chris Collins all chose to do a module as undergraduate ambassadors. For Candy, who was reading chemistry at the University of Southampton, it was a way of dipping a toe...
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The chance to learn can be a lottery...
... especially for those leaving care. Local authorities have a duty to support them in higher education, but many fail to do so, finds Matt Baker Leading care organisations have warned that the...
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Oh, the very chic of our student housing plan
Post-Hutton, the University of the M25 is running scared - right to a medal-winning Olympic ruse, writes Ted Prince What do you mean awful news really is awful news?" said our sultan of spin,...
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Less of a Robin, more of a hood
Dick Turpin is often viewed as a lace-frilled gentleman robber but, writes Chris Bunting, recent research suggests that he was little more than a very violent thug Some are born great, some achieve...
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Ambassadors, go forth and multiply
Geoff Watts reports on a scheme that aims to halt a cycle of decline in maths and science by giving undergraduate role models credit for working in schools With young people's enthusiasm for science...