Nicholas Barr describes the lessons to be learnt from ߣߣÊÓƵ's Higher Education Contribution Scheme As the funding of British higher education has got into a worse and worse mess through the 1990s...
Your report "Into the big time with big bucks" (THES, September 12) wrongly attributes to the Institute of Chartered Accountants a preference for non-accountancy graduates when it comes to training...
Monday Go to Manhattan. Not large famous Manhattan but small, unknown Manhattan in Kansas. It is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the wind erosion research unit of the United States...
Ray Monk's review article about Thomas Nagel (THES, September 26) was a model of clarity, exhibiting the virtues of analytical philosophy which he rightly seeks to preserve: rigour, precision and...
Seven full-time academic staff in the University of London, all with unimpeachable scholarly credentials in the study of eastern Europe and Russia, are being threatened with "voluntary", ie...
In your coverage of our survey of the state of teaching equipment (THES, September 26), you gave the impression that the report was solely produced by PREST. In fact it was an equal collaborative...
I have been an advocate for the provision of a continuous curriculum post-16 for some time. If we are genuinely committed to improving access we must avoid unnecessary barriers to progression. As...
Roger Brown (THES letters, September 12) argues for the need for collaboration between the various higher education sector bodies involved in the Dearing report's proposed Institute for Teaching and...
The letter from John Beckett (September 26) commenting on the article which included my remarks on higher education as a useful screening process for employers was headed "All his own words". I now...
You chide Scottish academics for their "naivete" (THES Editorial, September 26) because we call for additional funding from the Scottish Parliament without saying, as Lindsay Paterson put it, "...
Diana Warwick once again repeats the ethical argument seemingly swallowed hook, line and sinker by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals that "It is only fair that those who benefit from a...
We read the recent article by Lucy Hodges on our competitor Piers Corbyn (above) with interest. However we were disappointed to read the standfirst/picture caption that accompanied the item - that...
PART of my job is to keep up with what is happening to staff on campuses in London and southern England. Every month I read a dozen or more university newsletters. I have become something of a...
AFTER a generation of defeat and retreat, American labour is fighting back. Remembering a time when industrial and cultural workers marched together, labour's leadership has invited intellectuals,...
(Photograph) - An exhibition at the University of Nottingham Arts Centre called "Molecules are life and art" aims "to show the link between molecules and everyday life", says its curator Cristina De...