Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
Robert Stevens (Soapbox, THES , January 16) names Imperial College and Thames Valley University as exemplars of a feared two-tier system and elitism. An unfortunate choice, perhaps, in the light of...
Chemical engineers must be pleased that a professor of strategic management compares their profession to plumbing (Letters, THES , January 23). With this level of understanding of engineering, was...
Why not a plumbing degree? Because it would confuse plumbers with heating engineers. A domestic plumber's main skill is to make waterproof joints, avoid airlocks and get a pipe across a building...
It is the smug, well-established universities that deserve the epithet "Mickey Mouse" ("Do they deserve to be degrees?", THES , January 23). In response to government pressure for change they failed...
Dental schools, like medical schools at UK universities, are struggling to recruit and retain teachers ("Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation", THES , January 16). This is against a...
Student health services risk serious underfunding as the new general practitioner contract stands. Our work, caring for young adults, often away from home for the first time, is not fully recognised...
In his review of Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Books, THES , January 23) Paul Ormerod trots out facile shibboleths that have been intoned by corporate apparatchiks for the past 30...
Why is it that while we at business schools teach management, credit control, budgeting and how to run successful commercial enterprises, most universities are like the proverbial cobbler's children...
Enthusiasts of merit pay in UK universities (Letters, THES , January 9 and 16) should take note: Enron Corporation managers in the US were dedicated supporters of merit pay. According to Bethany...
Liverpool is not the UK's leading university in complexity research ("World will not bow to our control", THES , January 16) and is, in some respects, the new kid on the block. In 2001, the Open...
Oxbridge admissions procedures must be reformed ("Cambridge ponders taping of interviews as more parents complain", THES , January 16). Applicants should be under no obligation to answer any...
Is Alan Ryan the fictional lovechild of Laurie Taylor and Ricky Gervais (Opinion, THES , January 23)? Or is he just a don from another planet? Reading that Ryan, if real, is riled by notions of...
Sherpa is not an "online search engine that provides free access to... research papers" as you state ("Archive site takes off", THES , January 16) but is setting up institutional archives of open-...