Laurie Taylor column
Some PhD vivas are "held behind closed doors and examiners can behave as they like" - Susan Bassnett, The THES, January 10. Ah, Mr Maull, welcome to your PhD viva. I'm Professor Lapping, your...
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Alan Ryan
By the time you read this, Charles Clarke may have decided how universities are to be funded and how students are to pay for their courses. It looks as though some version of Nicholas Barr's long...
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Leader: If graduates must pay more, ensure it's fair all round
Most academics - like the vast majority of students and their parents - would prefer higher education to be free, funded from general taxation. They would like the government's strategy paper to...
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Room upgrades at a premium
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Helen Hague opens our student special by looking at changes in UK provision. Students raised on Changing Rooms and other makeover shows...
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Soak away essay worries in the hot tub
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Stephen Phillips surveys the US move into upmarket apartments. Unlike the cramped communal living quarters of old, US universities now...
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Private path holds hidden dangers
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Jonathan Rutherford considers the impact of PFIs. Higher education is joining the schools and health private finance initiative markets as...
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Loneliness of the long distance learner
The bizarre suicide of a Harvard chemist inspired a rethink of postgraduate support in the US. But where do UK universities stand on such issues? asks Chris Bunting. He was as meticulous in death as...
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Would you lose more than your shirt to gain your PhD?
Sean Clarke worked as a strippergram to finance his studies - until he got caught with his pants down. "How the hell did things end up like this?" I found myself wondering gloomily as I lay face down...
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Saviours of souls using topknots and technology
Susan Palmer and Bryan Sentes say that the cloned baby furore raises wider questions about our belief in scientific and technological progress On December , the private corporation Clonaid announced...
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University funding: discuss
Universities need cash, students need support and there are too few working-class entrants. After a two-year extension, Charles Clarke and the class of '73 are all set to deliver answers to these...
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Retake A levels from politicians 1
Alison Wolf is right to bemoan the detachment of A levels from universities (Opinion, THES , January 10). I have been involved with post-16 economics examinations for about 15 years. Originally...
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Retake A levels from politicians 2
Alison Wolf rightly deplores the loss of university control over the school curriculum, but in her book Does Education Matter? she distinguishes between education proper - higher education - and...
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Undiscerning words
Michael Rutter calls my book The Blank Slate "intemperate" ( THES , December 13) and its main premise - that many intellectuals believe the mind is a blank slate - "simply nonsense", "tabloid...
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An undeserved shift
I was flattered that my appointment as dean of the London College of Printing Media School featured in "In the News" ( THES , January 10), but I did not make the decision to shift the timing of TV's...
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In defence of Wits v-c 1
The alleged unanimous statement about my departure as vice-chancellor of Wi****ersrand University to which Wits registrar D. K. Swemmer referred (Letters, THES , January 10) was nothing of the sort....