Learning curve
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has made two key academic appointments in the run-up to the 2000 Interactive Entertainment Awards. Roy Stringer, creative director and chief...
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Heroic launch
New-media company Epic this week won the contract to set up and run an internet portal that aims to be the first stop for people seeking information on British higher education and research. Epic...
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A premier but not first
Your interesting feature on Lady Thatcher ("A nanny no, a Medusa ... maybe", THES, March 3) states that she was the first chancellor of the University of Buckingham. This is incorrect. Lord Hailsham...
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Course approval
According to Whistleblowers (THES, March 10), a document written by two managers of the University of Derby's Business School "expressed concern" that a cohort of students had been enrolled in June...
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Cause for complaint
Now that the central plank of the complaints code has been removed ("University reforms loom", THES, March 10), the Quality Assurance Agency's role in upholding student complaints looks very shaky....
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Four and against
When the funding councils decided to withdraw funding support from academic departments with a low PhD completion rate within four years, presumably their intention was to reward those units offering...
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Ofsted: an offer we can all refuse
How wonderfully selfless of Ofsted chief Chris Woodhead to offer the facilities of his organisation to the higher education community (Soapbox, THES, March 10). It seems a splendidly postmodernist...
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Ofsted: an offer we can all refuse
How courageous of Chris Woodhead to admit that "most of us accept much of our working lives as given. We stop asking questions and come to take working practices and the values that underpin them for...
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Biographical note
Biography is indeed shamefully neglected by universities ("Wanted: Cult of personality", THES, March 10). But Nigel Hamilton is not the only person teaching it. For some years now I have taught an MA...
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Research equality
Christopher Bluth's spirited defence of the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES, March 10) would be more convincing if universities were competing on a level playing field. Let us suppose the...
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Research equality
It is hard to see that the RAE as constituted assists women whose work might be thought to be a target for discrimination. To help there, the RAE would have to assign 4s, 5s and so on to each...
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Basic benefits for girls
You note that the World Bank has effectively endorsed the shifting of priorities from basic to higher education for the world's poorest nations ("World Bank enlists HE to narrow poverty gap", THES,...
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Scientists to be paid to explain
Scientists are being discouraged from explaining their work to the public by the fierce competition resulting from the funding councils' research assessment system. The House of Lords report on...
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Minister asked to justify X-ray site
MPs are to demand that science minister Lord Sainsbury provides a detailed explanation of his controversial decision not to locate the new Pounds 550 million synchrotron project at Daresbury...
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Budget may bring good tidings for colleges
Next week's budget could bring rewards for universities and colleges as the government rolls out its plans for innovation and enterprise, perhaps with extra support for further education students....