Congress cuts loan interest rates
STUDENTS applying for loans in the United States this summer will be the first to gain from a cut in their interest rates approved by Congress. But a student lobbyist who helped pass the measure...
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Governors need business nous
Whistleblowers at Anglia Polytechnic University have now asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England to intervene to examine their complaints. At St Austell College, education secretary...
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Lords must leap to grants defence
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill is now through the House of Commons. During its progress the government has used its majority to strip out two amendments inserted by the House of Lords against...
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Trivial tabloid headlines mar quality debate
"IT IS time," thundered the leader writer (THES, June 5) "to restate a few big things". Sadly, the thunder died away into the misty drizzle of introspection that has characterised The THES's approach...
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Help offer for Glasgow
THE Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and, specifically, the orthoptists board, was fully aware of the Higher Education Quality Council audit visit to Glasgow Caledonian University...
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Italian job
THE academic plan under discussion at Queen's University Belfast proposes the closure of degree courses in Italian (THES, June 5). This means that Italian would not be taught to degree level anywhere...
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Prejudice, professors and pride
HOW can The THES state that "academics are probably less prejudiced than most professions" (June 5)? Let us take the example of gender. Damning evidence over recent years has demonstrated the...
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Prejudice, professors and pride
I APPLAUD your article on Lola Young and her achievements (THES, June 5). However these do not include being the first black woman professor in a British university. That distinction is held by Mel...
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Prejudice, professors and pride
In response to some misunderstanding of the tabulation derived by The THES and contained in Lola Young's article, here is a supplementary note. As originally stated, information concerning...
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Free speech
LEE Harvey (THES, June 5) rightly raises concern about the rising cost of conference fees and their drain on organisational resources. Concern should also be raised for those who, like myself, are...
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Secrets in the salary packet
Why can't Britainbe a bit more likethe United States and come clean about everybody's wage rises and merit money, asks Keith Soothill I DID not get a salary rise this year. It did not really surprise...
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Lust among lecturers and lectured
Whether it is in the corridors of power or those of academia what is wrong with romance blossoming between two colleagues, asks Mark Griffiths THE Industrial Society reported recently that 40 per...
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Don's Diary
Monday Our second examination week, so we will expect a fair few panicking students in the counselling service where I work. We are all aware of this, and will be looking out for them despite heavy...
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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It makes you want to turn off your bleeper
The modern political journalist does not need an electronic message bleeper to be told what to think and write. He or she simply regurgitates the last article on the chosen subject. After several...