"My hope," said the minister for higher education in Brighton this week, "is that the money will be forthcoming." The money in question is the as yet undisclosed spending planned for higher education...
US presidential candidates promise to reduce college costs, but show me the money, says Stanley Aronowitz The 2000 US presidential elections mark a turning point in national political discussion...
"There is no question that the sort of person going into teaching is getting better and better," says Lord Puttnam ("Liberating staff from 'the pits'", THES, September 22). Notwithstanding the poor...
I was not surprised to read the response of the Council of Validating Universities to the Quality Assurance Agency's position paper on a national qualifications framework for England, Wales and...
Your article, "UEL gets rapped over staff 'neglect'", (News, THES, September 15) contained misleading references to the outcome of the University of East London's continuation audit. The Quality...
Middle-class students were reportedly recruited to fill empty places in summer schools because too few students from under-represented groups "met the criteria" ("Poor fail to fill access places",...
Alan Story makes the fair point that the Copyright Licensing Agency system is unable to identify individual journal articles and thus, if appropriate, to route payments to the authors of those...
It is a great pity that another well-known campus-life writer is not mentioned in "Spreading the word on campus" (Features, THES, September 22). That writer is Kingsley Amis, whose Lucky Jim and...
Further to Graeme Harper's excellent outline of the benefits of creative writing on campus, as one of the first two PhD students at Essex in this field, can I point out two more useful examples?...
Sarah Fitzpatrick's article ("Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off", Opinion, THES, September 1) suffers from an unthinking acceptance of untruths in the Greenaway-Haynes report. How is it...
The Dome is a major asset to London and it offers great opportunities to higher education, says Rick Trainor It is popular and easy to knock the Dome as financially extravagant and lowbrow. It calls...
Being able to swim like a shark is a question of drag, and scientists at Mie University have the means to measure this factor precisely Humans have long dreamt of being able to swim like fish,...
Germany and France both want to revitalise their research sectors by injecting cash and giving youth more scope. Jennie Brookman reports from Frankfurt. Germany has lost its leading position in...
One of the most striking features of nature is the autumnal colours of leaves. Why leaves change pigment so dramatically is a mystery. The conventional explanation is that the green pigment used to...
Workplace clutter may be a sign of a happy office. Meredith Wells, a psychologist at Eastern Kentucky University, in the United States, has discovered meaning amid the personal items found on desks....