V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Tony Tysome's article "Cracks appear over QAA" (THES, May 15) has interpreted the CVCP's position statement as supporting a system of registered external examiners to review quality. This is not the...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Your editorial of April 17, 1998 about the approach of the QAA states that "there is little evidence that the academic community at large shares Sir Stewart Sutherland's anger at what is being done...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
The consultation period for the structure, priorities and organisation of the Institute of Learning and Teaching is proving very useful, including, as it does, the airing of differing views and...
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Gordon's dilemma
Chancellor Gordon Brown is again concerned about pay outstripping productivity ... what on earth will he do? He should "name and shame" the companies, sectors and company directors who are "over-...
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Laddismo foot on the clutch
DURING a seminar on transport and society in 1993 three of my students worked out a project that had us hastening two kilometres across town to a pub called the Graf Eberhard, named after the 15th-...
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Embryo from two seeds of thought
FOR TONY BLAIR, whose political instincts are inclusive and unsectarian, it is risky to attempt the inherently divisive project of designing an ideology under the rubric of "the third way" between...
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Don's Diary
Monday This is going to be a good week. I have to go into the university only once and have four whole days at home to work. Bliss. Of course, before I do any real work there is some marking, letters...
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The Times' league table
The data for the nine league tables published last week were used by The Times to produce its consolidated "league table" according to its own criteria. The THES did not select those included.
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Iris Kemp
Iris Kemp, a former casual worker featured in last week's THES, is employed by the University of Hull and not by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.
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Lecturers scorn institute
University teachers criticised the proposed Institute of Learning and Teaching at a regional consultation last week. The criticism follows a paper from the '94 group of universities which described...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: 2.4 million students were at further education colleges in England, 3 per cent fewer than in 1996 73 per cent of students on...
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The University of Central Lancashire
The University of Central Lancashire, not Lancaster University, should have been listed in the "Top Institutions in 70 Subjects" table under Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.
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Revision on track
(Photograph) - Students at Liverpool John Moores University sit next to a statue of Grand National winner Red Rum at Aintree Race course, waiting to take exams at a new conference centre on site....
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In a class of his own
(Photograph) - Stephen Lewis has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to study conservation techniques in several European cathedral cities. He is currently working on the medieval Dean's Eye...
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Fellowships
Trinity College, Dublin Honorary fellowships were awarded to: Seamus Heaney, poet laureate; Mary McAleese, president of Ireland, former law lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Fellowships:...