Letter: Sats don't help access
It seems extraordinary that the UK is now engaged in a debate on the merits of United States Scholastic Assessment Tests ("Britain is urged to adopt US Sats", THES, March 2). American research has...
It seems extraordinary that the UK is now engaged in a debate on the merits of United States Scholastic Assessment Tests ("Britain is urged to adopt US Sats", THES, March 2). American research has...
I share Beverley Southgate's concern about the declining number of history students (Why I... think history needs a moral purpose, THES, March 2). I suggest several reasons for this: * The deplorable...
Your story on the inflation of teaching quality assessment grades is cogent and welcome, but the conclusion is not surprising ("TQA devalued by grade rises", THES, March 9). The trend is best...
The analysis of TQA grades in your story illustrates some of the pitfalls of comparing performance by different institutions especially as grades - being a measure of fitness for purpose - are not...
Am I quite mad? I have just completed the external examination of a PhD thesis. I was paid £105 plus second-class fares from London to Swansea. The fee works out at £2.92p per hour - about two-thirds...
Your report on the recovery of funding ("Recruitment failures lose out on £35m", THES, March 2) was mistaken because the Higher Education Funding Council for England published incorrect data for this...
There should be little surprise that only 7,000 of the projected ,000 enrolments for part-time courses have been received. Most students are part-timers: working 20 hours a week or more outside...
Everyone in higher education agrees that universities need more money. The body that exists to fight for it, Universities UK, explored the options thoroughly in the Taylor report. But the task now is...
Gordon Brown will not be chancellor for ever, but it would be rash for higher education to hope that the next denizen of 11 Downing Street will be any more lavish than Mr Brown. Instead, future...
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