Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (5)
John Randall says it is time to put the interests of the consumer first (Soapbox, THES , August 24). It is great shame the QAA never seriously adopted this principle. The University of Leeds has...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (6)
Now that he has some time on his hands, would John Randall care to supply an honest account and clear defence of his own "presumptions"? What conceptions of education and quality justify his habitual...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (7)
Universities do not have products or customers. Universities are not businesses. Neither students nor employers (far less university staff) are assisted by false analogies between universities and...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (8)
It is the RAE outcome, and not subject review scores, that is the defining standard by which the old universities judge themselves and, as a result, many academics now regard teaching as a burden and...
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Letter: Sentence condemned
The condemnation to death of the peace activist Younis Shaikh under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan is an abuse of justice and humanity. While respecting religious difference, religion must also...
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Letter: Shaky foundations
A Department for Education and Skills spokeswoman describes two-year foundation degrees as adding "a further rung on the coherent ladder of vocational learning" ("Colleges predict student shortfall...
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Letter: Come clean on jobs
Institutions with internal candidates should not advertise posts when they know in advance - though lack the courage to admit it to their staff - that they will be offered to internal candidates....
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Letter: Maureen lives!
No, P. M. Wetherill (Letters, THES , August 17), I am not far-fetched fiction. I am every bit as real as Professor Lapping, who is in Ireland struggling to connect to the email between golf rounds,...
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Leader: Them or us - a nasty test of altruism in academia
The prime minister's demand for a review of the student fee, loan and grant regime is welcome. Such a review is overdue and should feed into the next spending review. But there is a risk that loss of...
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Leader: A post-Randall rethink needed
John Randall's departure from the Quality Assurance Agency has unleashed a flood of suggestions for improving quality assurance in higher education. These go beyond the present consultation exercise...
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Midlands mix of Koran, Kant and Kashmir
InWhat does democracy mean to a Muslim? Mandy Garner visits the institute tackling the issues that divide Islam and the West Markfield lies in the heart of the Midlands. About half an hour's drive...
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A cocktail of bombs, drugs and inequality that just keeps on killing
As a Colombian guerrilla group with leftist academic ties returns to its bloody campaign, Domenico Pacitti probes the roots of decades of violence. The failure of peace talks between the Colombian...
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Stage dogs are all bark, no bite
Gagarin Way , the Tarantinoesque hit of the Edinburgh Festival, is a backward-looking play that is eclipsing risk-taking projects, argues Greg Giesekam. Few observers of theatre will not now know of...
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Whose land is it anyway?
Tension is mounting over land reform in South Africa. Can the government avoid a Zimbabwe scenario? Karen MacGregor reports. Pat Dunn's life has been a nightmare since she returned from political...
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Leaving the minarets to be inspired in Birmingham
During a visit to Islamic faculties in Kuala Lumpur this summer, I was struck by the number of academic staff holding PhDs from Britain. At one meeting, at the National University of Malaysia, of...