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...
... 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...
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,...
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...
Frank Furedi ("Don't underestimate managers' ability to treat you as an idiot", THES , January 30) highlights academics' fears that managers are using staff development to whip them into line with...
"Personal development" is a hoop through which employees in most large organisations have to jump. You do not have to be a starry-eyed academic to find it patronising. The only satisfying explanation...
Frank Furedi's attack on university staff development is largely empty and misconstructed. Staff development aims to further the goals of an institution, individuals, or both. Furedi attacks...
John Drummond neglects to mention that dental school recruitment problems extend to non-clinical academics, who are usually responsible for 30-40 per cent of teaching (Letters, THES , January 30). He...
The British Medical Association is concerned that clinical academic numbers are falling when medical student numbers are rising steeply ("BMA warns of research-mad medical schools", THES , January 30...
Preliminary results of the pilot student satisfaction survey ("Students rate staff highly", THES , January 30) should be treated with caution. Constructing a league table that allows students to...
Geoffrey Beattie's claim ("It's not what Les says that counts", THES , January 30) that the Big Brother house and its inmates provide valuable data for new psychological theory is worrying. His main...
How appropriate that the survey conducted by psychologists at Leicester University should rank Tony Blair and David Blaine in the 69th position ("Youth drool at cool", THES , January 30). A fantasist...
An apparently unnoticed spanner in the higher education bill (Opinion, THES , January 30) is that European Union directives require the UK to offer higher education places to non-UK EU citizens on...
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...
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...