Derby lays foundation
Your headline "Derby course plans shelved" (December 5) is misleading. Derby has a successful record with foundation degrees and has a five-year plan to introduce programmes with partner colleges....
Your headline "Derby course plans shelved" (December 5) is misleading. Derby has a successful record with foundation degrees and has a five-year plan to introduce programmes with partner colleges....
Nottingham University has broken away from the rest of the higher education sector in its approach to pay and grading ("Nottingham strike threat over job scale", THES , December 5). Having been...
If I were not already comfortably aware that academics tend to be dafter than most, I would have had difficulty in crediting the proposal (Letters, THES , December 5) to give a 10 per cent tuition...
I was dismayed to see higher education minister Alan Johnson quoted as saying he sees nothing wrong with law students subsidising those studying chemistry and physics ("Grants may be key to success...
Postdoctoral research staff have received little attention in the debate over the new pay structure ("AUT and employers square up over pay", THES , December 5). We stand to lose almost as much as...
As a union member, I respect the right of Unison to fight for its members and I am pleased that it feels it has achieved a well-deserved pay increase for support staff. But I resent Christina McAnea'...
So, a battle is under way over Nelson's significance ("Historians battle over Nelson's reputation", THES , December 5). Since this battle seems to contain fashionable "what-iffery", is it time to...
If, as its vice-chancellor Alison Richard claims, Cambridge University is "underfunded for teaching by £24 million a year", what does this say about other institutions ("Cambridge says it needs fees...
When scientists use The THES to snipe at religious faith, their arguments often lack logic. Andrew Whitten, reviewing Richard Dawkins' A Devil's Chaplain (Books, THES , November 28), decries the "...
It is depressing to hear an influential professor claim: "Anything that promotes American culture at the present time must be damaging" ("Poisonous programmes", THES , December 5). Am I damaging my...
I would like to correct an error in the article "Scientists will test BSE mutation theory" ( THES , December 5). It mentions a recommendation made by Ferguson Smith to genetically screen BSE cases in...
Call me naive for not seeing it before, but your diagonally juxtaposed articles on the debates on fees ("Grants may be key to success", THES , December 5) and research-teaching ("May doubts research...
Your headline "Derby course plans shelved" (December 5) is misleading. Derby has a successful record with foundation degrees and has a five-year plan to introduce programmes with partner colleges....
WHICH LECTURE COURSES ARE UNDERMINING OUR CULTURE? Following the enormous success of the THES readers' poll to discover the TV programme that has done most to undermine British culture, we now bring...
WHICH LECTURE COURSES ARE UNDERMINING OUR CULTURE? Following the enormous success of the THES readers' poll to discover the TV programme that has done most to undermine British culture, we now bring...