Maturity matters
Your front page painted a depressing pictures of applications by mature students to higher education (THES, February 13). Lucy Cavendish is a Cambridge College for mature women and we are saddened by...
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Maturity matters
Congratulations on highlighting the problems faced by mature students. The Dearing report did not consider the impact of fees on mature students despite their numbers in the undergraduate population...
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Fears of a merger
I WAS elected general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe by a 60:40 vote on a platform of one union for all lecturers, researchers and academic-related staff. Such a union would be able to...
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Fears of a merger
In 1996 as a national negotiator for my then union I supported and took an active part in industrial action, as inferred by Jill Jones of Natfhe (THES, February 20), but I regretted its necessity....
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PhDs' best deterrent
Debts discourage students from taking PhDs (Research pull-out, THES, February 20) for several reasons. First, the graduate job market has seen salaries and demand rise, thus making postgraduate study...
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Professors call for fee and grant rethink
WE WRITE as university academics and others to express our grave concern at the government's abandonment of the principle of free higher education. The existence of a funding crisis is not in dispute...
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Don's diary
Friday A big presentation to give in Buenos Aires next Wednesday: 8,000 people. I have been invited by the Organisation of Services for Company Directors, a medicare foundation, to talk about work...
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Iraq war tips from Mr Cooper's book
By the time you read this, you may know which way the world went. Either the crisis that has dominated the airwaves, news-print and conversation will have been defused or western hardware will be...
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Tagore's lamp to the mind
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...
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Law league table debunked
LAW SCHOOLS have launched the most sustained attack to date on United States college rankings in the magazine US News and World Report. In a letter to 93,000 law school applicants, they warn the...
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Mandelson's dome's day junket
PRIME minister Tony Blair this week offered a sneak preview of some of the things the Millennium Dome will offer visitors. The Pounds 758 million Greenwich dome will feature "zones of experience" on...
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Trauma chief quits
YVONNE McEwen, controversial director of the first higher education trauma management and victim assistance project, has resigned from her post at Fife College a year after being appointed. Ms McEwen...
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Honours
Roehampton Institute, London. DUniv of the University of Surrey from the Institute was awarded to Evelyn Glennie, musician winner of the 1984 Gold Medal in the Shell/LSO Music Scholarship, Royal...
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Mankind's duty to war children
International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict
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The executive princes
The New Machiavelli