It is a bit rich for the Conservative Party to bewail universities' lack of freedom. Until 1983 there was no legislation covering universities as a group. Polytechnics and colleges were controlled by...
Elitism is on the agenda again this week, with independent school heads making menacing noises about government attempts to encourage preferential access to university for the poor. Admission to "a...
While I do not think higher education is a seed-bed for radicalism, it is a place of awakening political awareness ("Radicals in retreat", Soapbox, THES, September 22). There are two reasons for a...
The only thing more exasperating than a young person with strong political views is a young person without strong political views. Nick Crossley's report on the apparent disappearance of student...
The employer claim that hourly paid staff do not merit pro-rata contracts because their work differs from that of full-time colleagues, flies in the face of the evidence ("Part-timers cut pay bills...
Like Paul Sander and Keith Stevenson ("How to save students from boredom", THES, September 29), we have been monitoring first-year university students' preferences for different teaching methods....
I was delighted that you gave such prominence to Baroness Blackstone's reply to my question on differential fees at the fringe meeting organised by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals...
It all depends on what you mean by "entrepreneurial" (World view, THES, September 29). My work suggests a cycle of progression from a corporate to an entrepreneurial university. The current phase...
I could not help smiling when I read the tortuous replies in Agony Aunt on how to remember students' names (Teaching, THES, September 29). I simply have a photograph taken of everyone, append their...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the addition of resources, made possibly by the lottery, for personnel and facilities, is responsible for our revolutionary improvement in Olympic...
I was delighted to see the picture of my colleague David Howe on your back page ("Running man..." THES, September 29). However, I must point out to your caption writer that David is not a cerebral...
Thank-you for publishing our letter on the summer schools initiative (Letters, THES, September 29). For the record, the (recently established) Institute for Policy Studies in Education is not...
Lord Briggs gets it spectacularly wrong when he writes that in 1907 Rudyard Kipling became the second British Nobel prizewinner ("Small prize for man, a giant leap for mankind", THES, September 29)....
I suppose I could be a bit gender-sensitive, but, um, haven't a few more women been awarded a Nobel prize? Only one was mentioned - what about Aung Sang Suu Kyi? All ten of the portraits of award-...
I read the article on the University of Queensland's new hi-tech Ipswich campus ("Campus plugged into heart of city life", THES, September 29) with growing incredulity. Ageing movie stars often have...