How to get the most out of an M&S sandwich
John Davies looks at what a top retailer has to offer its trainees . Sir Richard Greenbury, chairman of Marks & Spencer plc and holder of honorary degrees from five British universities, is...
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Wish list for workers
Anthony Hesketh asked employers to rate the skills they wanted graduate recruits to offer. The result was surprising The demands made on our universities by employers are set to move into a new era....
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Swansea licks its wounds at Cardiff victory
FRIDAY March 13, 1998, is a date that will not readily be forgotten in the city of Swansea. On that day Ron Davies, the secretary of state for Wales, made one thing clear: the new National Assembly...
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Examiners get into gear
Mike Cuthbert looks at the new role for the quality watchdogs JOHN RANDALL, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has identified the various roles for external examiners in the post-...
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Cornish left in the cold
Now that Exeter University's attempt to provide a University for Cornwall has failed, feelings of terrible disappointment have given way to deep anger. "Regional credit accumulation" (THES, March 13...
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The pseudo intellectuals
Roger Pollard's defence of the PhD viva voce examination (THES, March 13) makes a very important point in the context of the debate concerning student numbers, quality and academic independence. The...
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The pseudo intellectuals
EWAN GILLON's gentle critique of the viva oral examination (THES, February 20) may indeed, with luck, kindle a long-overdue debate about the suitability of this traditional form of assessing PhD...
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The age of inequality
I WELCOME Maria Eagle's article (THES, March 13), which calls for the university system to present a more welcoming face to students from working-class backgrounds. I made many of the same points in...
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The age of inequality
MARIA Eagle MP promotes the principle of equality of access to higher education for everyone "regardless of social class and parental income", yet she supports the policies of a government that is...
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The age of inequality
FOR how much longer will it be acceptable to lay the blame for the social bias that is pervasive throughout our education system at the door of a handful of crusty dons in Oxford? As Maria Eagle's...
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The age of inequality
I went to Oxford through the entrance examination and have since held academic posts both in Oxbridge and elsewhere. I was from a poor background, went to a comprehensive school and no member of my...
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Video the top teachers
I WAS very disappointed to read the dismissive, knee-jerk reaction of the co-directors of the Centre for Higher Education Practice (THES, March 13) to the suggestion that videos of outstanding...
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Birth pangs of a body for lecturers
ONE OF the more welcome recommendations of the Dearing committee was the proposal that an Institute for Learning and Teaching be established. Dearing envisaged that the institute would be...
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Don's Diary
Monday The alarm rings at 4am, but I am already awake and packed. A calm walk through Darlington's centre with the trusty rucksack, a holdall of books, plus sandwiches and flask. At 5am I am on the...
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Chairs
University of Strathclyde The title of professor emeritus has been conferred on: Kamal Andrawes, civil engineering; David Berry, bioscience and biotechnology; Tom Bone, deputy principal; Roy Burdon,...