Indicators fail to perform well
Your headline "Paisley puts the elite to shame" is at best attention-seeking and at worst wrong. The report shows Paisley as having the best record in widening participation. But the statistics do...
Your headline "Paisley puts the elite to shame" is at best attention-seeking and at worst wrong. The report shows Paisley as having the best record in widening participation. But the statistics do...
Behind many of the statements about performance indicators there is an assumption that the population of higher education should reflect the population of the country and that if it does not, it is...
I write as a disabled academic to argue that the university system in Britain is seriously neglectful of people with disabilities. The emphasis on broadening education access commonly ignores this...
You state (News in brief, THES, October 6) that "plans for a Welsh Bac(calaureate) get universal backing" based on a survey that was carried out by the Institute of Welsh Affairs. Such enthusiasm...
Paul Surtees ("Why the lack of female firsts at Cambridge is down to more than PMS", Features, September 22) did not comment on the finding that the most significant reason for this was women's...
Once again the news media uses the body form to define women in the public domain ("We'll set colleges free, say the Tories", THES, October 6). By all means report on Theresa May's contribution to...
Your article "Blackstone rules out top-up fees" (THES, News, September 29) accepts that higher education funding faces an inevitable spiral of decline, given that top-up fees have been ruled out. The...
The European ombudsman, when he finds maladministration, can rebuke an authority only with a "critical remark". ("Dons claim win in EC case", THES,September 29). The ombudsman upheld our complaint...
Your editorial (Opinion, THES, September 29) says that there is "little higher education can do" about its place on the government's priority list. This is tragic defeatism in the face of lobbying...
Valentine Cunningham laments the neo-managerial destruction of old academic values As the deadline for the research assessment exercise approaches, and we say farewell to yet more colleagues lured...
The e-university will help UK institutions to go global and be the best. Ron Cooke explains how. The e-university, as described by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in its proposed...
Angela Rae. Senior tutor and director of development. St Chad's College. University of Durham The writings of the 6th-century monk St Benedict, who founded the Benedictine order, are just as relevant...
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