Fed-up fee-payers set to sue
Universities face a wave of student litigation because of a failure to grasp their changing contractual relationship with fee-paying undergraduates, an academic lawyer has said. Tim Birtwistle of the...
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Learning the lessons of a mature market
In the first of a series on education at the close of the 20th century, Brian Rix celebrates the return of lifelong learning. When I left school at 17, my father, who was in the shipping business,...
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Clusters at the mercy of planners
Silicon Valley (and other US high-tech clusters) developed over more than 30 years through a serendipitous combination of good universities, supportive state governments and big federal contracts,...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
A jobless English PhD points out what appears to be a paradox: "I thought that if the university and the Arts and Humanities Research Board was so keen to fund me for three years, it must have...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
As a graduate teaching assistant, I have been very well-prepared for teaching, research and administration. I undertook Keele's teaching and learning in higher education programme, which will give me...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
Here at the Centre for Medieval Studies we run a very successful training programme for our research students. Potential PhD applicants should consider opportunities for training and work experience...
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Fighting a fear of isolation
Western academics must not forget their Serbian colleagues in the war's aftermath, Dejan Djokic argues. Pressure on Slobodan Milosevic to resign is building from without and within the Federal...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
The Research Careers Initiative has encouraged institutions to provide career planning courses for contract researchers, but sadly many have poor take-up. The RCI is now investigating more flexible...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
No one told me it was going to be easy to get funding for my PhD or to find a job afterwards. I spent four years in different jobs after completing my MPhil, paying off debts and saving for three...
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QAA code curtails student rights
The Quality Assurance Agency's attempt to control students' access to information through its code of practice on students' complaints and appeals ("Visitor is out in QAA draft code", THES, July 23...
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Access issues
The article on the discussion about policy responses to widening access at the annual Conference of the European Access Network presents what was said by a member of our staff during a debate...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney, reviewing books by Susan Haack and Sandra Harding, opines that "their disagreements are real, but they have more in common than either is inclined to admit" (Books, THES, July 9). Of...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney's review of Haack's Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate and Harding's Is Science Multicultural? is a strange and confusing read. It begins by contrasting their epistemologies, with Haack...
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Devaluing our talent
I read with great interest that John Randall's Quality Assurance Agency's office salary budget has been increased to Pounds 129,000 (THES, July 23). I have recently been appointed to the QAA's...
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Oz ruling may lead to back pay claims
MELBOURNE Moves by Australian universities and technical colleges to outsource the provision of services such as payroll, finance, cleaning and maintenance are likely to cost the institutions more...