Happiness is ... being a medical secretary
Medical secretaries, butchers, cleaners and petrol pump attendants enjoy far greater job satisfaction than academics in higher and further education, according to researchers at Bath University....
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Nurses prefer more practice, less theory
Some 88 per cent of new nurses and midwives think their studies prepared them well for practice, according to a survey of 4,880 final-year students. But more than half said they preferred more...
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British education must embrace a new world
In the last of our summer series on education at the end of the century, Howard Newby asks if UK universities are up to the challenge of globalisation In recent years higher education in the UK has...
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Challenges of the new century
Pay, quality assurance and other topical matters are bound to dominate next week's annual meeting of the vice-chancellors of Britain's universities. But what is really needed is a broader strategic...
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Saving for study
The government is rightly alarmed at the pace of social polarisation. As booming shares and rising house prices make the rich richer, the poor, lacking jobs, qualifications, and even access to IT,...
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Principal defends RAE
The research assessment exercise's selective funding is an inevitable consequence of technological advance rather than being elitist and unfair, according to Edinburgh University's principal, Sir...
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And the winner is... me
'The panel would want to be confident that what they were doing was fair and that Professor Brooke was not unduly advantaged' The don appointed to Oxford University's prestigious new chair in science...
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Getting personal
Finally, for all those vice-chancellors out there wondering what to do with their recent 4.8 per cent pay rise, the small ads offer a suggestion - the personalised numberplate VC 7.
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Unappealing visitor
The Oxbridge Visitor system is even more iniquitous than your article indicates ("Visitor is unwelcome in law", THES, September 3). In 1988, as a Cambridge PhD student, I appealed to the visitor, the...
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Balancing act
You report ("Science loses out to Brit hype", THES, September 3) that the British Council has cut back its exchanges programmes in favour of exhibitions and publicity campaigns. This is not the case...
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Little room to talk
As a founder of one of the fraternities like Pyrates, Buccaneer and Black Axe when he was a student at the University of Ibadan in the 1960s and now safely ensconced with a visiting professorship in...
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Easy ways to raise dropout rate
Student dropout rates are now about 20 per cent ("UCAS accused over dropouts", THES, September 3) and research is in hand to discover the reasons. It is indeed a puzzle. I was recently asked to...
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Easy ways to raise dropout rate
It is good to find a member of the Quality Assurance Agency board questioning the QAA approach to judging teaching quality, and Roger Williams is absolutely right in questioning the use of numerical...
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Rocket over squib
How extraordinary that the chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Tony Higgins, should hazard the view that the Association of University Teachers admissions boycott was...
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Bucket of salt
I am sorry to disappoint Tom Schuller, whose chivalrous defence of Lady Blackstone and David Blunkett displays great good nature (Letters, THES, August ). I really do think their vision of higher...