Brits at risk in Malaysian market
KUALA LUMPUR British universities are getting their fingers burned by dabbling "naively" in Malaysia's unregulated and rapidly expanding private higher education sector. Experts in Kuala Lumpur have...
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I'm getting married in the morning...I hope
* They say the course of true love never runs smooth, and this has been borne out by the first weddings hosted by Manchester University's newly licensed hospitality and conference centre. Bride...
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Vice-chancellors' pay: clarification
* The vice-chancellor of South Bank University earned a total Pounds 125,000 for 1998-99, including benefits, performance-related pay and pension contributions. The principal of the Royal Northern...
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Call for camaraderie
In an issue (THES, January 28) that has Frank Furedi telling us what Theodor Adorno told us concerning bureaucratisation ("Wake-up call", THES, January 28), a Natfhe advertisement urged us to send...
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We pay our own way
The salary of the dean of London Business School or any other member of faculty at the school is not paid from public funds ("Uni boss's pay tops Pounds 250,000", THES, January 28). LBS is...
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Write and wrong
I would like to add my own observations to Alan Lovell's (Letters, THES, January 28). The department in which I teach has highly qualified applicants. Indeed, we approach Oxbridge norms in having...
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Write and wrong
The important development is not that 20 per cent or even 60 per cent of students cannot write accurately. One or two indeed will be incapable of writing anything but near gibberish. What is more...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
Surely, Nottingham University should have been immediately suspicious of anything styled the Virgin Institute of Fertility (THES, January 28). As a BBC commentator once famously remarked of the...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
On behalf of all staff in this office, can I disclaim any involvement in the activities alluded to by Laurie Taylor regarding "Torrid nights of sex and drugs in F block" (THES, January 28). At least...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
It may be possible from the rarefied heights of the Department for Education and Employment for David Blunkett to believe that the substitution of loans for grants and the imposition of tuition fees...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
One might have presumed that the removal of grants and the creation of loans was based purely on new Labour's desire to save the Treasury some money. The extent of those savings being dictated by the...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
David Blunkett declares there is a fairer system in place for fees, loans and grants. But students will be disappointed if they believe institutions are themselves fairly funded. Looking at non-...
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Couched concepts
Instead of reading about the strengths and weaknesses in Joseph Schwartz's Cassandra's Daughter (Books, THES, January 28), I learned that Raymond Tallis does not like psychoanalysis. The review gave...
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Couched concepts
Senior lecturer in psychiatrySt George's Hospital Medical SchoolLondon It is interesting to juxtapose Raymond Tallis's attack on psychoanalysis from the viewpoint of proper science with the...
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Canadian and US scientists slug it out over GMOs
Scientists on both sides of the genetically modified foods debate made sure they had their say when the UN held its conference in Montreal last week. Philip Fine reports As representatives of more...