The government's idea for a University of the National Health Service is broadly a good one. It was promised in Labour's election campaign and looks set to happen. But details so far imply that, as...
Medical and dental students must understand the structure and function of the human body in order to understand and treat disease ("Final-year medical students not ready for wards", THES , October 5...
In debates about foundation degrees and the government's desire to foster them (Analysis, THES , September 28), teaching assistants are a particularly good group to consider. The government also...
The government's rethink of student support is a welcome return to the recommendations of the 1997 Dearing report ("Student cash in melting pot", THES , October 5). The criteria we used were that any...
Peter Lampl contends that "rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates" ("Lampl: fee system is rigged", THES , October 5), but there are few rich students...
May I object to Mary Warnock's statement: "Seeking to avoid a tendency to obesity, to alcoholism, to aggression or to homosexuality may seem little less acceptable than seeking to avoid disease". ("A...
Jane Ayres is sceptical that compulsory teaching qualifications for further education tutors will raise standards ("The power of personality", THES , September 21). While I agree that some inherent...
Frank Furedi paints too rosy a picture of the United States and too bleak a picture of the United Kingdom. He also overlooks a distinctive British opportunity for cultivating public intellectuals ("...
The most deplorable aspect of the marginalisation of the intellectual in Britain is the collusion of universities. Universities have embraced the managerial ethos and it is stifling autonomy and...
Frank Furedi raises a number of salient issues concerning the state of the British university, in particular the decline of public intellectuals and the rise of the narrowly focused academic "expert...
Colleagues may have greeted the news that the Arts and Humanities Research Board had spent £89.99 million on museums and galleries in 1999-2000 with disbelieving delight ("For the record", THES ,...
A fortnight ago, The THES trumpeted that the AHRB is giving £89.99 million to museums and galleries. Last week, the figure has been cut by 99.999990011 per cent to £8.99. Must be the recession. Andy...
My rationale for working at a university and studying for a PhD was not to "escape the real world" but to allow me to understand it better and (hopefully) share that understanding with others. Frank...
British novelist wins literature Nobel Trinidad-born British writer V S Naipaul is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation says that it was awarded "for having united...
Daily Telegraph A record number of students started at university this month, undeterred by the prospect of leaving with large debts, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....