Jobs out of context
The graduates-assumed-unemployed figure you quote for the University of East London ("Oxbridge tops table in student success", THES, January 21) was extracted from Higher Education Statistics Agency...
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Faulty grammar, but not dunces
Having just finished marking 76 scripts, I read William Rubinstein's article on history teaching ("A look to the future for Britain's past masters", THES, January 21) with some interest. I teach a...
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Network problems
Trisha Greenhalgh is quite right to point out that enthusiasm for teaching on the worldwide web is running ahead of any systematic knowledge of how students feel about it or whether they are learning...
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Network problems
David Noble suggests that distance learning offers the same empty promises made by promoters of the correspondence courses early last century (Enterprise, THES, January 21). While this may be the...
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Cold comfort
Most Cambridge academics do not support Wintercomfort, or the campaign to free Ruth Wyner and John Brock, as stated in Karen Gold's one-sided article, "Doing time for doing good" (THES, January 14...
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In brief
For the record, The THES of January 21 carried an entirely accurate report of the way in which the University of Surrey's charter had been extended to allow institutions to join it in a federal...
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In brief
In her understandable enthusiasm for the bucolic allure of Bretton Hall ("Liberation in merger", THES, January 21), your reporter has omitted a critical point about the proposed merger with the...
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In brief
University staff need not be surprised at the failure to improve their salaries or at the government's insistence on imposing a heavy research and assessment system when The THES can publish an...
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Thought for food
Tim Lang regards BSE as inadequate application of science, not poor communication of science ("The sour, unsavoury taste of food standards", THES, January 21). Yet he takes the nutritional impact of...
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Troubled college chief 'seconded'
Melton Mowbray College is set to be taken over by a Further Education Funding Council troubleshooter as principal Ken Masters leaves the college on long-term leave. Sources close to the college and...
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Eyewitness
Canada's bilingual ideals are crumbling under the policies of one of its provincial governments. Ontario Conservatives have been cutting a tier of government and amalgamating municipal services by...
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St Petersburg
Russia's acting president, Vladimir Putin, has been made an honorary member of the scientific council of the law faculty of St Petersburg University, his alma mater. President Putin, a native of the...
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Nursing a grudge
I take issue with the tone of Claire Sanders's article ("Practice makes perfect?" THES, January 21), which implies that there is something wrong with the way nursing education is delivered. There is...
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'Mockery' made of inquiry
Student support: Cubie compromise for Scotland, Blunkett boost for rest of UK Scottish students reacted with anger at the Scottish Executive's refusal this week to implement in full the Cubie report...
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Blunkett deal a policy 'U-turn'
Student grants are to be reintroduced in England and Wales, prompting claims of a government U-turn that leaves its undergraduate support policy in tatters, writes Alan Thomson. Education secretary...