Everyone in British education is drawing encouragement from the mention of schools, colleges and universities in last week’s budget. A word from chancellor Gordon Brown - when railways and other key...
Institutional diversity is not a chimera. Nor is the "multiversity" the solution to current policy dilemmas. A growing student population with an increasingly varied set of educational needs requires...
One question prompted by your article "More strings and less cash as v-cs revolt" ( THES , April 19) suggesting that universities will be expected to specialise more is: would a university...
Meritocracy means "rule based on merit". "Taking people on the basis of performance" is not that, Alan Ryan (Letters, THES , April 19) notwithstanding. He's right that this principle works for...
We should welcome the coming collapse of national pay bargaining - and do everything possible to speed its demise ("AUT fights plan to link staff pay to job ratings", THES , April 19). In the absence...
Grenville Wall paints a disturbing contrast between the proper status of staff in an autonomous university and their present submission in his former (modern) institution ("Why I think the university...
Your coverage of the Roberts report's finding that there is a looming shortage of high-level maths, physics, chemistry and engineering skills in this country ( THES , April 19) rightly emphasises the...
I too was surprised to read Kenneth Cardwell's article "Try teaching democracy in an occupied territory" ( THES , April 12). I was less surprised to read Professor Ruben's letter (April 19). Articles...
Bill McGuire, in his review of Edward Bryant's Tsunami ( THES , April 19), writes that "tsunami" is a Japanese word derived from "tsun", for harbour, and "ami", for wave. But "nami" is Japanese for...
Will Light ( THES , April 19) set out to illustrate his institutional merger ideas using Go. British Airways started Go as a semi-detached business in 1998. In 2000, BA decided to sell Go, stating...
The article on the budget ("Extra money, but..." THES , April 19) omits a small change that could further transform charitable support for education. The chancellor extended tax relief on gifts of...
As usual, Luton University's managers blame everyone but themselves for their institution's problems ("Luton - a cut both ways" THES , April 19). In fact, they were responsible for the failure to...
As one of the academics made redundant by the University of Luton last year and a signatory to the letter mentioned in the article on Luton, I have a simple question for the its management team. How...
The briefest of examinations of the THES archive indicates that Middlesex University has suffered management failure for some years. Reports of a significant funding deficit and the prospect of up to...
The article on the National Union of Students presidential election ("NUS reins regained by Labour", THES , April 19), suggested that the NUS has no clear policy on proposals for the introduction of...