Laurie Taylor's column
"Universities should stop criticising each other if they want to attract students" - results of a survey into students' views on the value of informal visits to universities - THES November 9 Well,...
Search
-
-
Leader: Mean and foolish rules block a vital resource
David Blunkett made a promise before the last general election and is delivering it. He said that as home secretary, he would make his predecessor Jack Straw look like a liberal. Now he wants powers...
-
Leader: New framework is needed to light present gloom
Staff at the University of Wolverhampton are going off sick with stress. Staff in further education are feeling under-appreciated. Chelsea Clinton is homesick. It is November. But this is not just...
-
Letter: Who's in charge around here? 1
It is a pity that Rebecca Boden (Letters, THES , November 9) did not check my views with the paper I gave at the Universities UK/Society for Research in Higher Education conference rather than base...
-
Letter: Who's in charge around here? 2
It is simplistic and misleading to suggest a stark choice between statutory corporations, which are prone to "improprieties and breakdown" and where chief executives dominate "pliant" governors, and...
-
Letter: Who's in charge around here? 3
So universities should be run by "shared governance". The trouble is we have a generation of governors and managers who think they run universities but do not, and academics who think they do not run...
-
Letter: Who's in charge around here? 4
The "professionalisation" of management in old universities is a depressing trend. The loss of tenure started the rot in 1988 by redefining the relationship between academics and their institutions....
-
Letter: Markets and quality 1
Eric Froment, president of the European University Association, has given a timely warning about the potential for damage to higher education posed by the General Agreement on Trade in Services now...
-
Letter: Markets and quality 2
Your leading article headline says that "to avoid a repeat of history, plan A needs a backup". Which history? The history of destruction of a vibrant university sector in the 1980s and 1990s out of...
-
Letter: In brief 1
The Quality Assurance Agency has no intention, wish or plans to "rank universities on a scale or 'several' hierarchical levels, from excellence to failure" ("QAA set to float new ranking hierarchy",...
-
Letter: In brief 2
After reading "Two fingers sure say a lot" ( THES , November 9), I found that my right hand is female patterned, my left male patterned. But the article did not give meanings for those whose digital...
-
Letter: In brief 3
David Greenaway says "taxpayers have bigger priorities (than universities): £3 billion buys 100,000 teachers and 120,000 nurses" (£5bn needed to match rivals", THES , November 9). Where do 100,000...
-
Letter: In brief 4
I know headlines are tricky, I did not, however, say that the challenges for the Learning and Skills Council were "too huge" (Analysis, THES, November 9), but that it faced "two huge challenges"....
-
Letter: A bloc-headed law
Dennis Hayes is correct in much that he says about the proposed religious hate legislation (Soapbox, THES , October 26). A badly drafted law will harm intellectual freedom. There is a crucial...
-
Letter: Islam in US story
Talk of an inevitable conflict between Islam and the West is "a fundamental fallacy" (Features, THES , November 9), not least because the two civilisations have long influenced each other. The...