Reaction to news that incoming universities' minister Margaret Hodge may put her weight behind the Quality Assurance Agency has been greeted with a collective "Oh No!" and a deluge of vulgar abuse (...
I was sorry to hear that Margaret Hodge had a bad experience at the LSE and wrote only one essay in three years. She might have preferred to come on the BA urban planning here. Over three years our...
Dorothy Zinberg writes about "the invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British Royal Society" (World view, THES , June 15). In fact the Royal Society started...
Although I no longer have a formal connection to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, I must correct an inaccuracy concerning comments attributed to me ("Famous for the wrong reasons", THES ,...
Margaret Hodge, the new minister for higher education, says that she was neglected as a student at the London School of Economics in the 1960s and allowed to get away with writing only one essay in...
It is to be hoped that those in government take a wider view than the new higher education minister. The picture she has of university life is dated and insulting. My experience as an engineering...
Margaret Hodge sets a poor example to students in her first interview. She excuses her own limited performance as a university student by saying that she "should have been forced to do more work" by...
Margaret Hodge is reported as describing her undergraduate experience at the LSE as "outrageous". I have to agree. Hodge says that she "was off university for six months after I injured my back and...
It is good to know that higher education policy is in safe hands, based as it is on the fact that Margaret Hodge, unlike many of her contemporaries who seized the opportunity on offer, was an...
The sector's hopes of a return to self-assessment, or at least the application of a universal light touch when it comes to quality assurance, seem to have been dashed with the ministerial reshuffle....
Sarah Franklin cites "statistics" showing that humans have 98 per cent of their DNA in common with chimpanzees, and presents this as "powerful evidence that it is clearly not genes that account for...
Opus Dei encourages members to live like saints and counts the pope among its supporters, but critics call it manipulative and pernicious. Paul Bompard reports John Roche teaches history of physics...
Maltese youth say they will not marry until they can divorce. Adrian Mourby reports The former British colony of Malta is one of those countries hoping that the European Union will be enlarged to...
The Pol Pot regime tore apart Cambodia's education system, but with hard work and international aid, the Centre for Khmer Studies is helping to put it back together. Sarah Murray reports. "Dear...
In Scottish universities, students elect the rector - a 'glorious anomaly' that often elevates celebrity above gravitas, writes Olga Wojtas. What do Gordon Brown, Lord Kitchener, Peter Ustinov, Lord...