Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (1)
Margaret Hodge, the new minister for higher education, says that she was neglected as a student at the London School of Economics in the 1960s and allowed to get away with writing only one essay in...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (2)
It is to be hoped that those in government take a wider view than the new higher education minister. The picture she has of university life is dated and insulting. My experience as an engineering...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (3)
Margaret Hodge sets a poor example to students in her first interview. She excuses her own limited performance as a university student by saying that she "should have been forced to do more work" by...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (4)
Margaret Hodge is reported as describing her undergraduate experience at the LSE as "outrageous". I have to agree. Hodge says that she "was off university for six months after I injured my back and...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (5)
It is good to know that higher education policy is in safe hands, based as it is on the fact that Margaret Hodge, unlike many of her contemporaries who seized the opportunity on offer, was an...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (6)
The sector's hopes of a return to self-assessment, or at least the application of a universal light touch when it comes to quality assurance, seem to have been dashed with the ministerial reshuffle....
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Letter: Aping uniqueness
Sarah Franklin cites "statistics" showing that humans have 98 per cent of their DNA in common with chimpanzees, and presents this as "powerful evidence that it is clearly not genes that account for...
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Letter: Freedom under threat
We write to express our dismay and concern over the recent dismissals of three academics: Robert Shell from Rhodes University, Caroline White from the University of Natal and Ted Steele from the...
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Letter: Poll positions (1)
Compulsory voting, as Robert Blackburn recommends (Soapbox, THES , June 15), is certainly something the Electoral Commission will consider carefully. It would make our objective of increasing turnout...
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Letter: Poll positions (2)
I recently gave a party and invited hundreds of people, yet more than 40 per cent of those invited failed to attend. Such apathy is inexcusable and risks generating the perception that I have fewer...
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Leader: Performance achieved, now for the related pay
Education ministers come and go, but Gordon Brown, who now has his own education adviser, continues at the Treasury. So doubtless the first rule of public spending will continue to be "something for...
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Leader: There is quality assurance, then there is the QAA
Reaction to news that incoming universities' minister Margaret Hodge may put her weight behind the Quality Assurance Agency has been greeted with a collective "Oh No!" and a deluge of vulgar abuse (...
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Sainted or tainted?
Opus Dei encourages members to live like saints and counts the pope among its supporters, but critics call it manipulative and pernicious. Paul Bompard reports John Roche teaches history of physics...
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Fidelity rules on island
Maltese youth say they will not marry until they can divorce. Adrian Mourby reports The former British colony of Malta is one of those countries hoping that the European Union will be enlarged to...
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Rebuilding Khmer after the Rouge
The Pol Pot regime tore apart Cambodia's education system, but with hard work and international aid, the Centre for Khmer Studies is helping to put it back together. Sarah Murray reports. "Dear...