Letter: Get over the age barrier
The bulge of over-50s will soon lead to a dearth of academics and is seen as a problem ("Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion", THES , October 5). In strict demographic terms this is correct, but...
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Letter: Long-lived labour
Patrick Joyce has long been predicting the demise of labour history ("Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels", THES , October 12), but we're still here. Admittedly in the age of new...
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Letter: Looming gap year (1)
Have education ministers Margaret Hodge or Estelle Morris planned the financial support British universities will need to survive the crisis engineered by telling students not to come to university...
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Letter: Looming gap year (2)
Surely no one would disagree that students "deserve better treatment in the changing education system" (Letters, THES , October 5)? In my experience, lecturers show a lot of sympathy towards students...
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Latest UK news
Female academics face discrimination Women, including female academics, suffer discrimination in trying to commercialise their ideas and discoveries, according to a new report from the Industrial...
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Latest international news
Petition to reinstate Harvard officers' corps Nine hundred Harvard alumni have signed a petition seeking the return to campus of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps 32 years after it was abolished...
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From today's UK papers
Carey only second double Booker The Australian-born novelist Peter Carey won the £21,000 Booker Prize, fiction's most prestigious award, for the second time last night. His tale of Australian outlaw...
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Research Programme
Deadline: 09/11/2001
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Latest international news
Bush fills postsecondary gap President Bush is to nominate Sally Stroup as assistant secretary for postsecondary education, the leading policy-maker on higher-education issues. Ms Stroup is a former...
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Latest UK news
Education secretary invites employers' input Employers should have more say in the education and training provided by universities and colleges, education secretary Estelle Morris told an employers'...
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From today's UK papers
Blair hints at tax rise Tony Blair gave his clearest signal yesterday that taxes would have to rise to allow Labour to continue to plough more money into health and education. ( Independent ) Star...
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Latest international news
Russia is to increase spending on fundamental science by Rbl921 million (£22 million), taking the total to R30.3 billion in 2002.
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Latest UK news
Former QAA boss issues accountability warning Ex-quality assurance chief John Randall has warned that consumers are demanding accountability from universities after a series of scandals...
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From today's UK papers
Education 'still failing the poor' British education is still failing to realise the potential of poor children, former prime minister Lord Callaghan said today in an interview with The Guardian to...
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From today's UK papers
Britain's first "designer baby" will be born by the end of the year. A British couple have side-stepped UK regulations and undergone treatment in the US to ensure they give birth to a baby...