Ofsted fails Cambridge training college
Leading teacher-training institution Homerton College, Cambridge, has failed an inspection by schools' standards watchdog, Ofsted. The inspectorate said that two out of six aspects of Homerton's...
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Undergrads in need of grammar schooling
Should lecturers be responsible for improving their students' grammar? That was one question for academics gathered at Anglia Polytechnic University last week for a key skills debate. Cordelia Bryan...
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Borders to student access
Scottish and Northern Irish institutions admit a lower proportion of access students than English, reports the Higher Education Statistics Agency. England, which took 83 per cent of all students in...
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Proud North Brum
I am writing in response to the article by Phil Baty in The THES of November 26. The procedural question regarding the appointment of senior postholders at North Birmingham College was referred to...
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Wrong side of the line
While I congratulate the founder academicians elected to the Academy for Learned Societies for Social Sciences (THES, November 19), it is disappointing and surprising to note that only one is drawn...
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Not Bloomsbury at all
The epigraph "No, not Bloomsbury" does not come from Lucky Jim ("Blooming of a square set", THES, November 26). The relevant paragraph ends "... Wapping, Chelsea. No, not Chelsea." And the hero is...
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Spelling it out
You have solved our problem of professorships acquired in old and new universities (Whistleblowers, THES, November 19). Your "new" title of professer should apply only to those in "new" universities...
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No ACCA deal
You claimed that Middlesex University "set up a deal to offer degrees in partnership with ... the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants" (Whistleblowers, THES, October 22). I would like to...
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Short term and shortchanged
Every time Christopher Frayling opens his mouth I am gobsmacked at the complacency of the Royal College of Art (Soapbox, THES, November 26). As an artist and educationist, I have been subjected to...
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Short term and shortchanged
Christopher Frayling's article paints a rather negative view of pending legislation on fixed-term contracts. If the staff he employs wish to undertake their duties on a fixed-term basis by mutual...
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Short term and shortchanged
While understanding Christopher Frayling's desire to have "practitioner academics", there are alternative contractual arrangements to those on which he insists for his staff. Why not, as in most of...
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The lost march
We are writing on behalf of all students from the University of Plymouth who took part in the March for Education in London on November 25. As it is more than 150 miles to London, we had to leave...
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Cutting edge
Evolvable hardware produced by Darwinian ideas of circuit formation is making the building of brains superior to ours a reality. One of the great economic driving forces of our age is derived from "...
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On the shoulders of giantesses?
Women in science account for just three out of 170 living Nobel prizewinners and are severely underrepresented at every level. Martin Ince reports on an EC initiative to redress the balance. There...
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Progress in fuel cell technology
The power beneath the bonnet of the green, efficient car of the future will most likely be the fuel cell. Yet the technology needed to convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy has so...