Letter: Quality straits (1)
Two major areas in the quality assurance debate have been left essentially untouched. The external examining system remains unchanged and thus, also, deeply flawed. It could have become the business...
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Letter: Quality straits (2)
The president of the National Union of Students, Owain James, can be relied on for a speak-your-weight response when it comes to quality assurance issues. Reacting to the news of John Randall's...
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Letter: Quality straits (3)
So John Randall thinks that "almost all of this derided administration would occur anyway" (Soapbox, THES , August 24). He is right. But since his organisation insists that the information and data...
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Letter: Quality straits (4)
Reading between the lines, it looks as though Lewis Elton (Letters, THES , August 31) is claiming some credit for the recent QAA proposals for an audit scheme. The idea is by no means new, and lay at...
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Letter: Resist urge to merge
London Guildhall University Natfhe branch appears to have difficulty in understanding the haste with which management is pushing through the merger with the University of North London ("London merger...
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Letter: Business of learning
The analysis of the performance and effectiveness of universities is an important public issue for all the stakeholders ("Why the smart cash is not clever", THES , August 31), although there are...
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Letter: Business of learning
We are delighted with the interest our research has generated, but in our original paper (in the International Journal of Business Performance Management) we did not conclude that the financial...
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Letter: Robostrop
You assert that none of the Lego robots at the World Conference on Computers in Education in Copenhagen "succeeded" in ousting all seven figures from the circle on a whiteboard table ("Roboflop",...
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Letter: Postdoc rejection
I am a 39-year-old postdoctoral surrounded by rejection letters for the third year running (Letters, THES , August 17, 24). Based in an English department, my doctoral dissertation was on a...
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