Spaniards urged to leave home
Spanish students are being encouraged to study away from home in a move to stimulate competition between universities and raise standards. The Spanish Rectors' Conference has unveiled a scheme to...
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Romania bows to minority pressure
The Romanian parliament has finally cleared the way for the establishment of the proposed Petoefi-Schiller University, which will teach in Hungarian and German, after two years of stormy debate. But...
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Hungarians consult the LSE over grants and loans reform
Hungarian education policy-makers are examining options for a loan and grant system as part of the process of implementing the country's higher education reform plans. When the Young Democrats party...
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Threats from deep space require deep thinking
Movies have been devoted to it, scientists make a fuss about it and, in the shape of Lembit Opik MP, it has a vocal parliamentary lobby. But the possible extermination of Homo sapiens by asteroid...
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Access winners deserve big prizes
The moves by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to use its full financial muscle to encourage wider access are proof that the new parliament's inquiry into fees is not causing planning...
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Universities can shape a framework for Europe
European education ministers wish universities to lead the movement towards a system of collaboration. Kenneth Edwards considers a great opportunity Last month's signing of the Bologna declaration by...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
Vice-chancellors' concerns about Diana Warwick's elevation to become a working Labour peer are quite right ("Warwick peerage splits CVCP", THES, July 9). There is a conflict of interest and no matter...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
Graham Zellick's argument (Soapbox, THES, July 9) seems based on two misrepresentations. Diana Warwick will speak and act in the Lords in her personal capacity and not on behalf of the CVCP. There is...
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Warwick and conflict of interest
I was amused by one of Graham Zellick's reasons for resigning from the CVCP over the Diana Warwick affair: "We were not consulted and senior people such as vice-chancellors do not take kindly to such...
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A question of faith
The article on radical orthodoxy gives a misleading impression of the movement ("Angels in dirty places", THES, July 2). First, it is true we ascribe to a Credal orthodoxy. At the same time, we...
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A question of faith
The low intellectual level of the trendy movement called radical orthodoxy is evinced in the quoted statement of Graham Ward, one of its leaders, that the "positivist view of materiality" held by...
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When the exams fail
In "How to help students who fail exams" (Teaching, THES, July 9) one important factor was overlooked - failures due to faults with examinations. Although examiners are usually subject experts, few...
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Complaints procedure
Your publication of an extract from my recent letter to the Quality Assurance Agency in the story "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2) failed to bring out that I welcomed the QAA draft as...
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Durham lodges
Following the reference to Durham University in the context of freemasons (Letters, THES, July 2), could I make a couple of points? Two masonic lodges with "Durham University" in their titles were...
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Disabled by the system
The issue of access and access funds to university for mature and disabled students is very relevant to the series of articles you are running ("Living on borrowed time", THES, July 9), as is funding...