Letter: Shameful assembly (2)
The £265 million announced for Welsh higher education is only part of an overall recurrent grant of £286 million for the academic year 2001-02, to which should be added capital expenditure of £25...
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Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (1)
You imply that there is conscious student choice in unexpectedly ending up at a pre-1992 university ("Shunned six made to fight for survival", THES , March 30). As anyone involved with admissions at...
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Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (2)
I cannot speak for those of my colleagues at the other universities that have been invited by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to prepare a plan following the shortfall in student...
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Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (3)
We have asked six higher education institutions for recovery plans because of the scale of holdback and consequent moderation funding that applies to them for the 2001-02 funding round. It would be...
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Letter: Doctored joy
A recent letter I received from a Scottish university can perhaps help explain the attitude of university administrators towards PhD external examiners. In the letter, a university official writes: "...
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Letter: Let's push for equality
Now that the prime minister is to delay the general election beyond May 3, there is an opportunity to put our stamp on campaigning. Students and teaching staff are central to the political...
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Leader: Medieval visitors have no place in a modern future
From the leading lights of British higher education, there is talk of ambitious change throughout the sector. Mergers, e-universities, foundation degrees, new approaches to credit accumulation and...
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Leader: Forget the job figures, look to lifelong learning
British universities have been accused for years of failing to prepare students adequately for work. The plethora of statistics released this week suggests that this accusation was false. Yet in its...
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Do the work, you're due a reward
In the third of our series on intellectual property issues, Danny Quah tells Alison Goddard how the profit motive can drive innovation. Hard-nosed commercialism is no bad thing in universities, says...
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Stalin's greatest secret
Five years in a gulag camp gave Roman Brackman a reason to find out what motivated Russia's ruthless dictator to ruin so many lives I have spent many years searching for the "real" Stalin - for the...
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Stirred into action by political apathy
What led to protesters attacking Starbucks and setting light to cars? A loss of faith in democracy, says Noreena Hertz. Mandy Garner reports. Noreena Hertz has always been precocious. At three years...
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Wake up and smell the (fair trade) coffee, Mr President
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
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Latest UK news
Poor pay threatens UK science PhD stipends at £9,000 are far too low, while pay and conditions for postdoctoral scientists are so bad they threaten the United Kingdom’s science base, according to a...
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Latest international news
Medical schools branded exclusive Ontario's medical schools have been labelled ghettos for the rich after a survey at the University of Western Ontario showed that the family incomes of students&...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Myriad Genetics, Oracle and Hitachi have formed an alliance to map all the proteins in the human body in less than three years - a task that was expected to take decades. Researchers...