Can economics stem a drop in interest rates?
Economics in universities is in a spot of trouble. For some time students have been turning away from the subject, first in schools at A level, then in degree applications. Ironically, in an age of...
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Universities must take the initiative over student jobs
Universities are getting involved in organising students' term-time employment. This is not new in respect of sandwich courses, but is now extending to casual work (pages 6 and 7). This is a grey...
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Investment now would keep recession at bay
Britain's campus entrepreneurial wizard, Chris Evans, of Merlin Ventures (among many other companies), is worried at the prospects of recession. He is not alone. But amid the gathering gloom he has...
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All work, no fee
I recently sat on a validation committee for a BA degree at Staffordshire University. This involved prior reading, a day of meetings, and an internal report. When I received no fee, I wrote to the...
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Project defended
We were extremely concerned to read Phil Baty's article ("Policy project flawed", THES October 16), much of which we consider to be inaccurate and misleading. Together with the signatories of this...
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No crisis
As Oscar Wilde might have said, your report of the death of teacher training ("Teacher training crisis deepens", THES, October 16) is somewhat premature. While some providers may be thinking of...
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Serb freedom threat
The following petition concerning threats to academic freedom in Serbia has been signed by a cross-section of prominent British academics. On June 4, 1998, secretly prepared legislation, rushed...
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Death toll
Joanna Bourke ("When Johnny got his gun", THES, October 16) states that "most servicemen returned home to immerse themselves once more in peaceable, civilian society". This might well be an...
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Ditch the dialogue of the daft
Alison Utley ("Too loving spoonfuls", THES, October 16) has touched on a major problem that almost all the dominant forces in our education system have a vested interest in ignoring. Students do...
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Agony aunt
Is it worth trying to find enough work placements for my students when there seems to be a recession around the corner and every chance, therefore, that employers will be tightening their belts? We...
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Firms train undergrads
Midland Bank, BP and PriceWaterhouseCoopers are among companies in Yorkshire helping to teach University of York students basic skills that employers say they want. Training in language and computer...
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OU helps 200 for free
The Open University in Scotland has offered free tuition to an extra 200 people on low incomes or benefits as part of a Scottish Office initiative to widen participation in part-time higher education...
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Students word goes
All academics seeking promotion at the University of Nottingham will have to submit the results of a student questionnaire evaluating their teaching. Questionnaires will be conducted on at least a...
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Second chancers
Fifty new entrants to Dundee University have won their places through its intensive ten-week summer school that aims to bring people with a disrupted education up to university entrance standard....
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How to Compile a portfolio
WHAT. In the final part ofour four-part series on key skills, Peter Burke and Bob Rainbow look at methods of tracking students' achievements using portfolios WHY. Portfolios help students hone their...