Building bloc of clicks 'n' mortar
Online courses offered by a consortium of universities are attracting much interest in Asia and Europe. Geoff Maslen, in Melbourne, reports. The first specially developed courses to be delivered...
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Cleo Lab funds e-learning research
The Open University and Carnegie Mellon University will be funded for e-learning research projects by the Customised Learning Experience Online Lab. The lab is a one-year research collaboration...
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Electronic design software goes online for students
The Institute for System Level Integration in Scotland is claiming a world first for online engineering tuition as its masters and doctoral students met their tutors for the first time after...
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Laurie Taylor Column
How many have you got left to do? About 78 methods, 97 theories, 46 semiotics and 26 film studies. And you? Much the same. Did you get stuck in last weekend? I knocked off a couple of dozen theories...
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Letter: Guard of honour
We should resist the temptation to join the bash-the-Quality-Assurance-Agency bandwagon (Letters, THES , May 4). University staff are asked to describe what is included in a degree and how the...
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Letter: Hoops, sticks and Treasury tricks (1)
It comes as no surprise that there is mounting resistance to the latest review of teaching and research time ("Dons rebel over onerous review", THES , May 11). Natfhe members are probably correct in...
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Leader: New Hefce boss is on a mergers mission
Even prime ministers have to win an election before they start to have power and influence. But Sir Howard Newby, who has not yet arrived at his next job running the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Leader: To educate more adults, start with the employers
When governments think about education, they usually see it in terms of providing a workforce that can contribute to economic success. This is understandable since the economy is bound to be their...
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Letter: Hoops, sticks and Treasury tricks (2)
The main objection to the transparency review is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of separating time spent on research from that spent on teaching. When I read a book or paper I am doing...
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Letter: Nursing grievances (1)
Your article "UK cuts funding for foreign nurses" ( THES , May 11) portrays the issue as being solely about a crisis of staffing in the National Health Service. But there are two even more important...
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Letter: Nursing grievances (2)
One of the main reasons the UK has a shortage of qualified nurses was the Conservative government-induced reduction in the number of nurse training places in the early 1990s. To redress the shortage...
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Letter: Relationship problem
Martin Dodsworth confuses the relationship between the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (Soapbox, THES , May 4). The establishment of the AHRB owed much to the BA's...
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Letter: Novel twist
The photograph accompanying "Red light finds its way to campus" ( THES , May 11) shows phone box cards that extend a number of unusual invitations, notably one from a "model": "Lick me, beat me, call...
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Letter: Great expectations
The report on us was not simply a Higher Education Funding Council for England report (Whistleblowers, THES , May 11). We and our validating university went into the evaluation unaware additional...
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Letter: Face the facts
Reading your survey of academics' opinions is like opening a time capsule and suggests there is widespread reluctance to face up to the future ("Growth is blamed for fall in standards", THES , May 11...