Stargazers head for Chilean mountains
Astronomers from the United Kingdom will create the most detailed atlas of the sky ever attempted using a new telescope to be built in Chile. The executive board for the Visible and Infrared Survey...
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Court to rule on degree student failure
Mature student Janet Finch took the University of Northumbria to court this week in pursuit of Pounds 20,000 damages for degree failure. Ms Finch alleges that the university did not offer sufficient...
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Strikers' docked pay goes to the hard-up
The Pounds 12,500 deducted from the salaries of lecturers at Bradford University after last year's one-day strike by the Association of University Teachers, has been put into a "last-resort" student...
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Brit pack loses grip north of border
Feelings of "Scottishness" have overtaken "Britishness" among supporters of all the main political parties north of the border. Findings from a Scottish parliamentary election study show a fall in...
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Stark warnings of staff crisis
In the news analysis "Stark warnings of staff crisis" (THES, February 25) figure 3 contained an error. The ratio shown should have been members of staff aged over 50:per members of staff up to 35. It...
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Adler on siblings
As an Adlerian counselling practitioner, I was very interested in the ideas in "Brother Cain, Sister Jane" (THES, February 4). Juliet Mitchell, contributing as a psychoanalyst, comments that "...
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Time bomb with a longer fuse
The article "Research 'time bomb' is a threat to teaching" (THES, February 25) argued that consumer students want a degree to do a job, not to do academic research. But for many of us, there is a...
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Time bomb with a longer fuse
The forces arrayed against the top-up fee advocates are great and not without clout ("No 10 backs Russell elite's freedom fight", THES, February 25). They must, however, not win the day if the United...
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Time bomb with a longer fuse
Natasha Loder asserts that we have something to learn from the United States ("Just what the postdocs ordered", THES, February 25). Despite scandalous levels of casualisation in United Kingdom...
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Age within reason
Your correspondents who express disquiet at 25 per cent of academic staff being 55 or over, or a third being over 50, are arithmetically challenged ("Stark warning of staff crisis", THES, February 25...
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Spoilt for multichoice
Responding to our article on the unreliability of multiple-choice tests (Teaching, THES, February 4), Gareth Holsgrove (Letters, THES, Feb 11) dismisses attempts to use penalty scoring (or negative...
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Spoilt for multichoice
If the procedures in the example below are followed, students soon cease to guess. With five possible answers, the odds of getting the right answer are not worth the risk of guessing. Rubric: Select...
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Blind injustice
Now that the goods and services part of the Disability Discrimination Act is in force, should not textbook publishers offer their books in CD format for visually impaired and other students who rely...
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Motorola's call
Government support of workplace degrees is welcome. At Glasgow Caledonian University, workplace learning has been progressively and successfully developed since 1992. Candidates who complete their...
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Higher degrees of disturbance
Students' mental health is suffering under the stresses of mass education. Colin Lago looks at how sympathetic staff can ease the burdens. The notion that "student days are the best ones of your life...