Whistleblowing
As a pro-vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, I am uncertain about whether to be complimented or exasperated by the attention we have attracted in your columns recently. I cannot let Phil Baty's...
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Whistleblowing
For the second week running, Phil Baty's column has attacked Middlesex University. We will keep our comments on "Middlesex jitters" (Whistleblowers, THES, May 14) as brief as possible. Middlesex is...
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How about English Not?
The "Welsh Not" imposition (Letters, THES, May 14) has entered nationalist mythology. It was a tactic not to destroy Welsh (why should Welsh schoolteachers want to do that?) but to get children who...
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You parasites
Neither Andrew Oswald's "market-led salaries" ("Pay the going rate", THES, May 7) nor his special-interest critics' alternatives ("Readers' reactions", THES, May 14) are any substitute for real...
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Why I ...believe I may have found the grave of the queen of Sheba
Patrick Darling Archaeologist at Bournemouth University. He has discovered the remains of an ancient kingdom deep in the Nigerian rainforest Each year, thousands of pilgrims come to honour what they...
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The truth won't out
Why won't the pope release papers from shameful periods in Vatican history? Michael Walsh reports "Hell" was abandoned in the mid-1960s. "Hell" was the name given to a locked room in the library of...
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Life in the college from hell
At Wirral Met College, everything that could go wrong did. David Robertson calls for checks on managerial vanity Recently David Blunkett, secretary of state for education, was forced to replace the...
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What gives academic tutors a buzz?
"The thing which gives me the most pleasure is if astudent walks through the door and says, 'I've got a problem, it's the following. Can you help me?' And then you stand and talk for half an hour or...
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In brief
A special workshop will be held next month to examine the lessons that can be learned from troubled Thames Valley University. The one-day workshop, organised by the Professional Courses Unit at...
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In brief
China is to greatly increase its investment in higher education distance learning over the next three years to facilitate the build-up of the country's educational infrastructure, and provide for the...
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In brief
Institutions in the Thames Valley and computer firm ICL have joined forces to launch a service providing online IT skills training to small and medium-sized firms in the region. Thames Valley...
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In brief
De Montfort University has launched three schemes to reward and encourage innovative teaching. Staff can bid for up to Pounds 1,000 to support development of teaching in their faculties. A...
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I'd like a one to one with my tutor
New software is giving computer-based assessment a lease of life, by enabling lecturers (and students) to post coursework on the internet. By Kim McCaffery Once upon a time, a student could write a...
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Prince of the low seas
Julia Hinde reports on plans for a JIF-funded vessel for monitoring shallow shelf sea ecology After 32 years of service, the Prince Madog is finally being retired to the sun. A little long in the...
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River management
JIF is not just helping scientists in their bid to clean up and understand coastal waters. Rather, a separate grant has paved the way for new research on river management. A Pounds 4 million grant...