Long live tutorials
There is no question of Oxford University cutting tutorials as a core part of its teaching provision ("Oxford's tutorials cut to aid research", THES , October 25). The tutorial is greatly valued by...
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Less of the tribal talk
It is a sad state of affairs if, as Bob Osborne says, "most Protestants in Northern Ireland do not regard the two universities there as 'Irish'" (Letters, THES , October 25). What are they then? They...
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SAT is worth its salt 1
You are right to argue that universities should make allowances for candidates from schools with poor results ("Tackle suspicion that plagues UK admissions", THES , October 11). Admissions systems...
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SAT is worth its salt 2
Your report "Headteachers demand clarity on selection" (News, THES , October 25) missed the significance of the statement of concern. It was signed by the four independent school heads' associations...
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In brief 1
If performance-related pay is on the cards (News, THES , October 11), it should more accurately reflect the reasons for excellence in teaching and research. All staff in a department could pool the...
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In brief 2
What's in a name (or figure)? Evidently, a degree of difference. Promoting foundation degrees to engineer the 50 per cent participation rate is likely to involve "sacrificing" the higher national...
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Laurie Taylor column
"We... the tutors, are not the possessors of a static body of knowledge that we can pass on, but participants in a many-sided conversation" - THES , October 25. Could we all squeeze up a little more...
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Leader: Don't let the OECD's plaudits go to our head
This year's Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development survey of education in the industrialised world has depicted UK universities as a global model of good practice. Underpinned by a...
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Leader: Frustrated sector could profit from Clarke's clout
Never has a new education secretary been given so much advice and been so unlikely to take notice of it. Although he has made a career out of being his own man, politicians, pundits and education...
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The return of big brother
Many people believe that Russia's security service is trying to intimidate academics and stifle open debate. Nick Holdsworth reports. Russian scientists, academics and environmentalists are feeling...
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Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat
Just what do vice-chancellors do all day? Harriet Swain joins Michael Brown of Liverpool John Moores University to find out, in the first in a series on the working lives of people in higher...
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Wanted: chief whose blood is hot and cold
In the modern university, size matters. And as campuses continue to get bigger, so too do the responsibilities of the v-c. Harriet Swain reports. The surprise proposal of marriage between University...
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Silence in seminary signals a few holy disorders
With the dramatic fall in the number of men seeking ordination, Terry Philpot asks whether the Catholic Church should review its approach to training. One of the student corridors in the Venerable...
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It is no longer wise to go strictly by The Book
The appointment of respected scholar Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury has not pleased fundamentalists in his flock. But, argues Keith Ward, a free-thinking theologian is a godsend for the...
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Celebrity snares
Do universities risk becoming caught up in society's growing obsession with personality as they strive to appeal to a greater number of potential students? Caroline Davis reports. Oxford historian...