How to get an encore - video it
WHAT Chris O'Hagan argues that videos of lectures and presentations are an easyway of spreading the good word and good practice WHY Lectures are still the mainstay of curriculum delivery, and if the...
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Take a deep breath
(Photograph) - Daniel Storey, an environmental science student at the University of Coventry, is taking a module in practical underwater skills at the Stoney Cove Diving Centre in Leicestershire....
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Star Turn
Alison Utley sits with the men and women in suits learning how to turn business around Everyone anticipates that students as paying customers will become more demanding -on that basis, Chris Pierce's...
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Swiss pave the way for centralised system
A more centralised way of planning Switzerland's universities has been proposed by the federal government and is being debated by MPs. Legislation based on proposals from the federal office for...
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Barriers broken by linguistic diversity
Language is at the heart of the diversity of Swiss higher education. The country is split between the French and German-speaking cantons and the language of instruction in the cantonal universities...
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Get a lawyer, David
Michelangelo's David is taller than textbooks say. When Marc Levoy and his team from Stanford University turned up to scan the statue with lasers for a 3D digital archive of sculptures, he had to...
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Catch-up pay is necessary to keep up quality
This week pay review bodies for teachers, nurses, doctors and others have gone to the cabinet, and the prime minister, Tony Blair, has reiterated his liking for performance-related pay in the public...
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Diversity and quality will thrive under light touch
Anything more than minimal external reviews will harm the quality they are meant to ensure, Alec Broers argues The first students to pay tuition fees have completed their first term. These fees will...
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No views here
Your diary (THES, January 15) suggests that I might have a view about a candidate in our executive election. As returning officer, I do not. In my former post in Natfhe, I took no part in...
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No views here
Higher Education Role Analysis is claimed to be "hated by the AUT, disliked by Natfhe, but supported by other unions" ("Is Bett about to pay dividends?", THES, January 22). This is inaccurate. MSF is...
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Questions of structural integrity
The institutional setting of architectural education is barely hinted at in Sir Colin Stansfield Smith's draft report, nor in Kam Patel's otherwise useful report ("Architects fear course renovation...
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Questions of structural integrity
You quote a Higher Education Funding Council for England official as saying that "a change from a five-year to a three-year undergraduate programme plus a two-year postgraduate programme would not...
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Questions of structural integrity
The statement from HEFCE illustrates the protectionism that has so dominated architectural education in the past two decades; even the RIBA response was immediately protectionist. It may be necessary...
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Questions of structural integrity
What is needed is staff who can produce more and better research and heads of schools of architecture who value research and have sufficient knowledge of it to be able to manage their resources....
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Agony aunt
Q Some of my engineering students have a rather elementary grasp of maths. What is the best way of helping them? A Janet Duffin Maths lecturer and head of numeracy project Hull University Much of the...