Letter: Fee fears and campaign pledges
There is absolutely no question of top-up fees being introduced in the next Parliament, as your story suggested last week. Our manifesto makes it abundantly clear that, if elected, we would continue...
There is absolutely no question of top-up fees being introduced in the next Parliament, as your story suggested last week. Our manifesto makes it abundantly clear that, if elected, we would continue...
It was interesting to read Ian McNay's query (Letters, THES , May 25) about "League Tables 2001" ( THES , May 18) in relation to "modern universities". In their article, Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard...
The recently published university department performance indicators are lists of single numbers that take no account of important variations in the disparate educational factors offered by various...
Your leader, "Bologna offers Eurosceptics a poor poll target", ( THES , May 25) judges the process of trying to form a boundary-free space for higher education in Europe solely in terms of its being...
The article on what it takes to be a vice-chancellor these days ("Hunt for the new breed of leader", THES , May 18) mentioned headhunters in general and one - Odgers, Ray and Berndston - in...
David Eastwood (Letters, THES , May 18) has misrepresented my point of view. I did not suggest that the Arts and Humanities Research Board was in any sense "the British Academy's creature", though I...
The question that Gene Rowe should be asking about complex issues ("The right way for a public say", THES , May 25) is not "how should science consult the citizen" but "how should the citizen consult...
We wish to correct a factual error in our letter ( THES , May 25). The universities of North and East London and London Guildhall University were not "bottom of the league" in student-to-staff ratios...
The news that the Blairite think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, is backing university top-up fees ("Top-ups back to spook Labour", THES , May 25) should alarm all who oppose the...
Labour's 1997 landslide is set to be repeated next week, a justified reward for a government that has made few serious mistakes, has had the economy on its side and has been blessed with a feeble...
Mandy Garner asks whether political scientists can influence policy-making. As prospective Labour MP Paul Whiteley knocked on the door of a potential voter, he was rehearsing his "standard sales...
Academics identify key issues in the upcoming general election. General election campaigns used to be short and sharp. Campaigning was concentrated into a three to four-week period, after which the...
Election campaigning has left Vincent Magombe questioning the meaning of politics in Britain today. I have never seen anything like it. A deputy prime minister anointed with egg, a light punch thrown...
Academics identify key issues in the upcoming general election Citizen participation is seen increasingly as the remedy for our political, social and economic ills. The Citizenship Order in education...
Academics identify key issues in the upcoming general election. Disillusionment with the country's administration started with train accidents, continued with the realisation that Britain's health...