Controls not control
I was surprised at the prominence given to Public Accounts Committee/National Audit Office pressure for more control over higher education institutions without a further exploration of the potential...
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A Labour lie that taxes talent
Having effectively enjoyed a free ride to their position of influence, it is somewhat unseemly for politicians to now stentoriously insist that others pay their own way. The moral weight of the...
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Staying mum
I am getting tired of the women academics as victims reports ("9.2 per cent of professors are women", THES, May 28, Letters, THES, June 11). University-trained, financially independent women who...
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Margin of error?
David de Meza (Letters, THES, June 11) believes I am in error in criticising the background paper to Dearing (Report 7) because it measures the extra value of a graduate to an employer as equal to...
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Margin of error?
Readers will be familiar with the issue of declining student enrolment in economics. One reason for this that is usually overlooked is that mainstream economics has ceased to have relevance to the...
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Standard practice
We welcome your survey of attitudes ("Dons get tough on standards", THES, June 11) as confirmation of the sector's commitment to do a good job for its students. But your leader was confusing about...
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Standard practice
It is true that TQA is being phased out after the millennium, but the details of the new process have still to be worked through and there is no sign that the central weakness of TQA as a vehicle for...
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Beware this benign racism
As Britain's universities look for ways to boost the number of academics from ethnic minorities, Martin Trow issues a stark warning from the US, where positive discrimination is coming under fierce...
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Fears over high-tech research
Sir Alec Broers, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, this week urged MPs to recognise that high technology offers as many "exciting, challenging and important" fundamental research opportunities...
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Disabled dons fight sector's handicaps
Disabled academics are calling for an ombudsman to check higher education's "limitations" in dealing with disability and discrimination. Four disabled scholars have taken their cases to the House of...
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Plan for Pounds twenty million museums body
The government plans to launch a new national body for museums, libraries and archives next April. The Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) will have an annual budget of nearly Pounds 20...
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Charities scoop lottery cash
A host of charities across the UK has been awarded research grants worth Pounds 23.4 million by the National Lottery Charities Board. A total of 139 health and social research organisations will...
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Cardiff scraps semester rejig
Protest from staff and students has forced Cardiff University into a U-turn over its reformed semester system, after just one academic year. A campaign by the student newspaper, Gair Rhydd, and a...
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Why are there top dogs in global science?
In the run up to Unesco's World Conference on Science, Tom Phelan and Stephen Cole discuss their research on national variations in scientific productivity It is clear that a relatively small group...
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Agenda for a better world
Federico Mayor, Unesco's director general, sets the scene for next week's World Conference on Science in Budapest In seeking a new relationship between science and society, the United Nations...