There is talk that Prince William may quit university to escape harassment by the tabloid press, but such intrusion is nothing new. Queen Victoria was forced to grapple with the mass media and its...
Plans for the national student survey are not in "disarray" as the front-page article claims ("Student survey plans fall apart", THES , March 21). On the contrary, we are making steady progress and...
The problems with satisfaction surveys are more complex than low response rates. The pattern of non-responses could bias the results. These are notoriously difficult to establish. Satisfaction...
Questions about satisfaction with teachers and institutions are not as valuable as consulting students on how well they are learning the course and what we (and they) can do to improve that...
Isn't it ironic that a government that dismisses the results of public opinion polls when it decides to go to war should expect future students to base their university choice on surveys of graduate...
The Quality Assurance Agency's future policy, as outlined by chief executive Peter Williams, is the third attempt in 100 years to put a buffer between state and universities ("Rest assured we will...
The university admissions debate has focused on students' secondary school experience, whether state or public. The inference is that, once matriculated, young people enter a level playing field. But...
My university is attempting to put into practice the very brand of governance Steven Schwartz advocates (Soapbox, THES , March 7). A small management group consisting of the vice-chancellor, pro vice...
I did not speak of "opposition" from Welsh vice-chancellors and councils to mergers at the recent hearing of the Welsh Assembly's education and lifelong learning committee as you report ("Progress...
Why is Northern Ireland ignored in your editorial identifying the fees dilemma for devolved institutions in Wales and Scotland arising from the white paper ("England's plans test the strength of...
Your grant allocations analysis ("Winners and losers in research cash stakes" THES , March 7) used information issued in March 2002 to calculate teaching resource allocated in 2003 relative to 2002....
The report on the decision to allow Suresh Deman to resurrect his claims for racial discrimination against the Association of University Teachers did not carry a quote the AUT provided ("Race-bias...
News that up to 400,000 Jews served in the armies of the Third Reich (Books, THES , March 21) throws a sidelight on the observation in Jeffrey Kaplan's Encyclopedia of White Power that "a surprising...
Hansjorg Geiges states that the magician's 1089 trick (Books, THES , March 14) works for any three-digit number: "No matter which number the audience chooses". This is incorrect as the trick fails...
C. Duncan Rice suggests one form of tax break applicable to endowments (Soapbox, THES , March 21). Perhaps a more immediate effect could be achieved by modifying the Treasury rules pertaining to...