Politicians who think students should pay more to go to university support the argument by pointing to graduates' enhanced earning power. Nobody disagrees that college education brings advantages. So...
The second-class status of vocational education will not be changed by more half-hearted tinkering as recommended in the green paper on 14-19 re-organisation ("New diploma flags up Morris revamp",...
Sir Howard Newby, in evidence to the Public Accounts Committee, has rightly drawn attention to the problem of students having studied different topics in their mathematics A level ("First-years need...
Roy Harris writes in his review of Ray Jackendoff's The Foundations of Language (Books, THES , February 15) that "the generativist horse never bolted: it was found dead in its stall". I agree with...
Are departments that obtained a 5 rating the "real losers" of the 2001 research assessment exercise ("A cloud in blue skies", THES , February 8)? My department received a 1 in the 1992 RAE and a 2 in...
My school entered the RAE in 1992 unprepared for and untutored in the strategies needed to create a strong research base. It gained a 2. Over the next four years we built an infrastructure and gained...
The bias in favour of large departments by the RAE and the funding council excessively penalises top-flight researchers in the smaller departments. This will eliminate competition and deprive the UK...
Roger Brown is right to highlight the way the RAE has weakened rather than strengthened the links between research and teaching ("One half of a double act", THES , February 15). A number of...
You are wrong to imply ("No power to halt BNP recruiters on campus", THES , February 15) that the British National Party is recruiting students at the University of Greenwich. We have no evidence...
I was astonished to read a letter criticising my cartoon for containing a "negative racial stereotype" and "disparaging indigenous art as crude and childlike". The joke was that an indigenous...
I was concerned to learn that the future of the Quality Assurance Agency's programme of overseas review visits might be in question. ("QAA role 'essential' overseas", THES , February 15). This work...
The sensationalising of lesbian sexuality that June Purvis talks of (Letters, THES, February 15) is not helped by Martin Pugh who accuses suffragette Annie Kenney of leading a promiscuous lesbian...
Derec Llwyd Morgan signs his letter defending the federal structure in Wales as "senior vice-chancellor, University of Wales, Cardiff" ( THES , January 25). What he means is, senior vice-chancellor...
Paris, 20 February 2002 Thanks to ion propulsion, the Artemis mission is turning near-defeat into a success story. Nominal operations could start this summer, with ESA's satellite, manufactured by...
Education 'leads way on reform' Education is the trail-blazer in the government's drive to use the private sector to improve public services, Estelle Morris, education secretary, said yesterday....