Anthony Giddens is renowned for having furnished new Labour with the 'third way' but, asks Harriet Swain, will he leave a similar imprint on the London School of Economics when he retires next year?...
Your diarist attributed to me the words of Ian Gibson (Diary, THES , July 5). What I said in the debate on the research assessment exercise at Westminster Hall was that it had not been proper for the...
I have visited Israel many times and have always felt a deep attachment to the country. But I am filled with anger and despair at recent events there and in the occupied territories. It is essential...
The David Irving trial was not only about Holocaust denial and the nature of historical research, but also about fudging the truth. It also examined in detail the vexed question of how the subtle...
The government buys places at UK universities cheap and then feels entitled to demand more for its money ("Lecturers told to get real-world job skills", THES , July 5). But if the government uses...
Mike Hill, head of the Careers Services Unit, like the government, equates training with education. Vocational courses should be partnerships between universities and employers. The university...
To read that working in a fast-food restaurant will be "valuable experience" for a student made me wonder if this was a news item left over from April 1. My experience of factory work was valuable...
It was interesting to see the piece on institutionalised racism ("Too few black staff in FE", THES , July 5). But there is another form of internal discrimination: that operating against staff from...
Your front-page article ("The train on platform 1 is not posh enough...", THES , July 5) about the need for Universities UK to charter first-class carriages to transport vice-chancellors to...
Frank Furedi's hearty defence of "diverse" assessment strategies is a timely wake-up call (Why I..., THES , July 5) and reminiscent of the protestations of the pet "boutique" proprietor in the famous...
Trust Frank Furedi to defend arbitrary and obscure academic procedures in exam marking. From his free-market position, you pays your money and takes your choice. We can expect his endorsement of top-...
Frank Furedi complains of centralised bureaucracy in assessment and argues that lecturers should be allowed more autonomy. What he really wants is a return to the pre-Robbins days when dons did...
You report that one academic thought an essay was first class while three others graded the work as third class. You could as well say that 96 of the 100 graded that essay as a second, the mark...
The marking system is a mess. As a mature student, I find that marking differs not only between faculties but also within departments. I have fallen foul of this and have complained. This complaint,...
Paris, 10 July 2002 An analysis of 13.5 thousand million-year-old X-rays, captured by ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, has shown that either the Universe may be older than astronomers had thought or that...