Agony aunt
Q) 'I have been given a bottle of champagne as a millennium gift from a student and am wondering, should I accept it?' Seiriol Morgan. Philosophy teaching fellow University of Leeds. A) If a gift is...
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Principals push for the higher cause locally
* Scottish principals this week launched a strong bid to persuade MSPs of higher education's importance in local economic development. The Scottish Parliament's powerful enterprise and lifelong...
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Sex bias in science risks legal challenge
(Photograph) - * Universities that discriminate against women may be denied European research funds, according to the vice-chairman of the European Parliament's research committee. Nuala Ahern (...
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UfI rebranded as 'learndirect'
* The University for Industry is now called "learndirect", it was revealed this week at the launch of the first 68 of the 1,000 drop-in learning centres to be fully operational by autumn 2000. The...
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Schools' A-level point scores beat colleges'
* School sixth forms outperform colleges in this year's official government 16 to 18-year-olds' performance tables, fuelling college claims that schools push their "rejects" into local colleges to...
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Sixth-formers get taste of university life
* More inner-city secondary pupils will get a taste of university life in a new summer school network next year. About 5,000 sixth-formers will next summer attend such universities as Oxford,...
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Caribbean men's progress
* Caribbean men need half a year longer in education on average to achieve the same goals as white men and have fewer degrees than other ethnic groups, according to an 11-year survey by Essex...
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Eagleton vs Spivak
Is it necessary to crank up Terry Eagleton's unpleasant animosity towards Gayatri Spivak ("More craic, less Spivak", THES, November 19)? The wonderful mistake in the contents page announcing that...
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Research shot down
The article investigating PhD drop-outs using a sample of "successful doctoral candidates" ("Doctorates: why so many give up", THES, November 19) reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story about an...
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Wage war on pay bias
Saul Estrin's admission that his female staff earn lower salaries because of lower positions ("Natfhe rails at 'endemic discrimination' in pay", THES, November 12) reminded me of a train driver who...
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Cyprus pre-1974
On reading Brendan O'Malley's interview with James Callaghan ("What Jim knew and Henry did", THES, November 12) one could be forgiven for thinking the ethnic cleansing started in 1974 in Cyprus. Well...
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Big, small, we'll take all
Phil Baty suggests universities are targeting small donors to avoid the earmarking that sometimes happens with large gifts ("Spare us a million, guv?", THES, November 12). This is far too simplistic...
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Learn, earn and turn round areas
Tony Tysome ("Great idea, but what's in it for us?", THES, November 19) highlights the lack of financial incentive for universities to participate in the regional development agencies springing up...
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Learn, earn and turn round areas
The article on RDAs suggests that "the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting". In the Northeast the reverse is true. One of our RDA's core objectives is to "place...
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On the missing list
I am surprised by Baroness Blackstone's claim (Letters, THES, November 19) that the Department for Education's February 1998 research on mature students' reaction to tuition fees ("Ministers accused...