Name and shame
I enjoyed Gargi Bhattach-aryya's article ("Feelgood is no good", THES, March 31). It is all very well setting targets and quotas for the entry of women and ethnic groups into higher education. We...
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Student blues
In focus groups conducted by Save British Science, research and undergraduate science students said the education system was not geared towards them. They felt that they had not been given enough...
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It's still not a BEd of roses
Amid all the cheer surrounding the government's Pounds 70m answer to the teacher recruitment crisis lurks gloom for universities. Phil Baty reports. University education departments face chaos...
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Research can have 'real' impact
Phil Baty's article ("Labour policy poses threat to freedom", THES, March 31) runs contrary to the government's commitment to better use of evidence and research in policy-making. Robust and...
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Research can have 'real' impact
I would like to correct some misconceptions about the Office of Science and Technology's consultation document on the Sixth European Framework Programme for Research and Development. The document is...
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Russellian logic
Leaders of the self-proclaimed elite research universities argue that their research excellence warrants a special level of undergraduate tuition fee ("Willis claims fees agreed", THES, March 31)....
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Delayed reaction
Sir Martin Harris, Manchester University vice-chancellor, is reportedly to chair a regional grouping of higher education institutions in the Northwest (For the Record, THES, March 31). Glad to hear...
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Graz boycott
When I read Chris Mulvey's reasons for why he feels he cannot attend the European Association for American Studies conference in Graz, Austria ("Doing the right thing", THES, March 31), I was...
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Graz boycott
There seems to be a certain sanctimony in the debate over whether academics should attend the Graz conference, but it is an aside in George McKay's article that I find personally offensive. He writes...
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Crime in Pakistan
The caption to the photograph with "Putting the just into justice" (THES, March 24) is wrong. It asks: "Is this justice? A mother identifies the sandals of her missing child, murdered by Indian...
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Trojan horse needed
I was disappointed to read that women in the Association of University Teachers have called for a union ballot to consider rejecting the Institute for Learning and Teaching, on the grounds that it...
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To kickbox or tickbox
I agree wholeheartedly with Alison Wolf on competence-based assessment ("Trying to box clever", THES, March 31). She has identified what we in further education have always said: "It is too top-down...
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Trade in your skills
The online age of learning is here.Universities that lack e-courses will go bust, warns Dale Spender. There can be no question about the existence of e-universities; they are as much a reality of the...
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Why the public should listen to scientists
The Royal Society - unaccountable elitism or democratic expertise? Harry Kroto defends the RS. The article by Tom Wakeford (Soapbox, THES, March 24) bound up some important questions. It talked about...
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Madrid
The University of Cantabria is paying students up to Pounds 300 a year to check lectures as part of a quality assurance strategy. Volunteers from 31 departments report on who gives the lecture, its...