Search

151,029 results
Page 5093 of 151029 results

  1. Leader 1: No consensus on degree reform

    Discussions on the reform of the UK's creaking degree classification system have been taking place inside the Burgess Group for almost two years; vice-chancellors had agreed to do something about it...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  2. Leader 2: Recruiters need help

    For an area of activity deemed sufficiently important to warrant a "Prime Minister's Initiative" in 1999, the recruitment of overseas students is being treated in remarkably cavalier fashion by the...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  3. Greater terror in extreme vision 1

    Anthony Glees's article "Beacons of truth or crucibles of terror?" (September 23) suggested that as some terrorists had attended UK universities and as there are also some offensive student...

    #Letters

  4. Greater terror in extreme vision 2

    I am a committed atheist, and yet I was taken aback by Anthony Glees's suggestion that universities should ban faith societies. Perhaps my Oxford college should shut its chapel? Freedom of...

    #Letters

  5. Greater terror in extreme vision 3

    I was disturbed by Anthony Glees's suppositional arguments and misleading conflations in his article on campus extremism. We are asked to believe that students absent from classes are plotting...

    #Letters

  6. Bully points

    During 35 years working in higher education, I made many decisions that some found not to their liking. According to your coverage of bullying ("Bullying rife across campus", September 16), this...

    #Letters

  7. Scare tactics

    It was disappointing to read the inaccurate reporting of Victim Support's hate crime research project in Frank Furedi's article "Be afraid, be very afraid... no don't" (September 16). The main aims...

    #Letters

  8. Good foundations

    Blackburn College has been involved with foundation degrees from the outset. It offered two degrees in the pilot and now offers 28 titles for 2005-06. All but one of these have been written and...

    #Letters

  9. Unsatisfying survey 1

    Your decision to create your own overall student satisfaction ratings rather than believe what the students said is breathtakingly arrogant (" Times Higher satisfaction rating" September 23). After...

    #Letters

  10. Unsatisfying survey 2

    I was surprised to see Nottingham Trent University categorised as having the least satisfied students with regard to its teacher training provision ("Who measures up to student expectations and who...

    #Letters

  11. Unsatisfying survey 3

    There is a major omission in your student satisfaction ratings - there is no reference to the smaller higher education colleges represented by the Standing Conference of Principals. Many of these,...

    #Letters

  12. Risky RAE business

    I read with interest the opinions of Robert May ("Forget the deckchairs - are we on the right ship?", September 23) and Nancy Rothwell (Columnist, September 23) on the research assessment exercise....

    #Letters

  13. Brought to book

    Nigel Biggar (Why I, September 23) doubts if Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code "will ever end up on the reading list of a degree course". Actually, it figures on mine, along with the - much better -...

    #Letters

  14. Twentysomething still has much to shout about

    As Feminist Review publishes its 25th anniversary issue, Anna Fazackerley looks back over its fulfilling, dedicated and turbulent past and talks to members of the collective about politics, race,...

    #Features

  15. The institute of bad ideas

    It is a strange man who argues that the Earth rests at the centre of the universe, a bizarre woman who thinks that leeches can cure arthritis, a true oddball who tries to turn lead into gold....

    #Features