Market forces and the charge of the fees brigade
Universities should ignore the exchequer and set their own fees, says Richard Mawditt Levels of tuition fees have become inextricably linked to what the Government is prepared to pay for higher...
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Teach yourself autonomy does not work
Developing students as autonomous learners is a proper aim for a university but not a solution to funding crises, says Grenville Wall As university finance gets tighter, exhausted staff take early...
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Pragmatic politics
Your leader (THES, January 24) made comments both on Gordon Brown's latest speech and on the salaries dispute in universities. However, you have obscured some important issues. First, by saying that...
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Professional ambitions
You report that "British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto" (THES, January 24). When examining at the University of Singapore I was surprised to find that only...
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Academy set up for African research
A SCHEME to revitalise research in Africa is to be launched later this year in an effort to generate home-grown solutions to the continent's many problems including conflict, disease, and famine. The...
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Demand drops for PGCE
A SIGNIFICANT drop in demand for postgraduate teacher training courses is revealed in the first official figures on applications for higher education places this year. Numbers applying for places on...
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Students fear loss of rights
NEW universities could introduce binding arbitration for student appeals and complaints under a set of proposals from vice chancellors. But the National Union of Students argues that the procedure...
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Open book on France
Max Beloff's critique of the French school system from a British point of view, and his friendly remarks about Anne Corbett are appreciated (THES, January 24). But why did he shut his eyes to the...
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Pecking order
It is time to initiate debate about the implications of the research assessment exercise for the "new" universities and the hierarchy of values which it is necessarily perpetuating. As expected, the...
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Pecking order
Frank Gould (THES, January 17) rightly points to the improved performance of former polytechnics in the 1996 RAE but his two role models - the 1960s universities and the advanced technology colleges...
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Pecking order
Now that the waves of the 1996 RAE are subsiding, we should consider if and when there should be another. One relevant factor is the cost estimated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Don's Diary
Monday Long flight south overnight with a group of colleagues to Mauritius for the summer school of a degree programme we offer there through flexible learning. We are the first flight allowed in for...
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Pension harmony
The response by Joan Gordon, Natfhe's pension officer (THES January 24), to the proposal for a Higher Education Superannuation Scheme, is that to set up a new pension scheme "is likely to result in a...
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Fat is a contentious issue
Professor Klein (Praise the Lard, THES, January 24) is right to criticise anorexic fashion and the dangerous slimming mania it has spawned. But his history is confused and glib. To establish past...
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Fat is a contentious issue
Richard Klein misses two vital points. One is that in the European context at least, fatness has nearly always been admired in women, not in men; and the other is that extreme fatness and extreme...