Penny bazaar principle in bizarre setting
IT IS a long time since we had stores that charged a penny for every item. The "one price" store was never likely to make it into modern retailing because any administrative convenience it gained by...
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Win some, lose some
At one level, the millions who bet on the National Lottery each week (pages 6 and 7) are a convincing indictment of mathematics teaching in British schools, since a poll shows that many of them think...
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Tough tasks face arts research body
The Arts and Humanities Research Council, long a dream of the researchers who lack a research council of their own, is getting nearer with this week's announcement of the new Arts and Humanities...
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Asian recruitment crash is self-inflicted
British universities rely too heavily on students from Southeast Asia. They must spread their net wider to avoid risk, says Marcel van Miert THE SLUMP in student recruitment from Southeast Asia has...
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Take a large dose of cooperation...
Colin Campbell urges medical schools to work together in their bids to train the 1,000 new students a year Britain urgently needs SINCE the medical workforce standing advisory committee, which I...
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Addictive cannabis
Professor Heather Ashton does us a considerable service by drawing attention to the much-neglected adverse properties of cannabis ("From hashish to ashes?" THES, April 17). Recent basic research,...
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Quality and uselessness
Stewart Sutherland (Opinion, April 17) is right, you are wrong. High-quality teaching or research can be achieved only by standards set by those working in institutions, not by external inspectors....
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Quality and uselessness
Your correspondent Bill Holdsworth ("Utrecht inspired by Oxbridge example", THES, April 3) wrote some kind words on the Universiteit Vrij van Nut, which organises courses for students of Utrecht...
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Quality and uselessness
It is good to find Peter Mann ("Trust to your tacit knowledge", Research, THES, April 17) distinguishing between "explicit knowledge" and "tacit knowledge"; but why stop there? It is important, too,...
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Priorities for reform
What does Michael Scott ("An open letter to David Melville", THES, March ) think universities have to offer well-managed further education colleges in terms of financial management and quality...
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Lessons in teaching
James Wright is correct ("False premise makes for wrong policy", THES, April 17). There is no evidence that one-off funding allocations will lead to lasting quality improvements. At best, they lead...
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Fixed-term whingeing
While it is accepted that fixed-term contracts of employment should not be a substitute for proper career management, personnel procedures and such, without them there would be considerably fewer...
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Long drugs trials deliver the facts
If Julia Hinde has reported Dr Chris Palmer correctly ("Trials with too much error", THES, April 17), he believes that it is the failure of trialists to abandon traditional statistical approaches in...
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Prudence over porn
Regarding the Mapplethorpe book and the University of Central England ("The naked and the damned", THES, April 10), surely this was a matter neither of obscenity nor pornography but discretion. Why...
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French is no longer de rigueur
MOROCCAN universities are bracing themselves for a major language shake-up. This is taking place at a time when higher education is in dire straits, largely because of the hasty language policies...