The Queen made it all sound so simple: upfront fees will be abolished, more young people will be able to benefit from higher education and universities will be placed on a sound financial footing....
Government proposals to change the rules governing the granting of degree-awarding powers and university titles, if implemented, will produce a second division of universities in England and Wales,...
The human-capital contracts advocated by Miguel Palacios (Soapbox, THES , November 21) offer distinct advantages over student loans. Most notable among these are the ability for repayments to...
Miguel Palacios argues that governments cannot fund higher education from tax alone. His solution is for the private sector to lend the money to graduates, who would pay back a percentage of their...
Members of the University Superannuation Scheme (Letters, THES , November 14, 21) will have read in their annual report that the fund has lost some Pounds 30,000 per member since 2000. That's £6...
Jocelyn Prudence seems to have abandoned her claim that the Association of University Teachers turned down a pay offer of 20 per cent (Letters, THES , November 14). She proceeds, however, to spin...
The debate on e-learning ("Educating e-ostriches", e-supplement, THES , November 21) treated the method as a ghetto. The original vision for the e-University UK Worldwide and Learndirect exemplified...
The shift in awareness of the importance of information and communications technology in the post-16 education sector is welcome (Editorial, e-supplement, THES , November 21). The main challenges,...
May I make a plea to university lecturers to have more contact with sixth-form students and staff through partnerships in regional conferences and seminars? We meet university admissions officers,...
Victor Lal asks what the alumni of Harris Manchester College are complaining about: the scrapping of history or the college's alleged financial troubles (Letters, THES , November 14). The THES...
For-profit universities are booming, gaining credibility and threatening some traditional institutions, says Stephen Phillips, while Olga Wojtas reports on initiatives by a new breed of Scottish...
For-profit universities are booming, gaining credibility and threatening some traditional institutions, says Stephen Phillips, while Olga Wojtas reports on initiatives by a new breed of Scottish...
When Canadian Blair Winsor was in his early 20s, he met an academic from Harvard Business School and asked what he taught. "Priorities," said the academic. "We overload the students with work, we...
Hindus incensed by a discussion of a deity's sexuality sent Paul Courtright death threats and had his book banned. But he still finds hope amid the anger A few weeks ago I received a startling visit...
How can a professor of philosophy get a new theory of consciousness across to the public? Daniel Lloyd (right) did it by writing a murder mystery, he tells Walter Ellis It wasn't that hard to be a...