Scots minister announces review
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council, due to be launched on January 1, will review the management of Scotland's further education colleges. Scottish education minister Helen Liddell (above...
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Code of practice for biotech firms
* Following a series of scandals biotechnology companies are to be subject to a code of practice to be drawn up by the BioIndustry Association and endorsed by the government, it was announced last...
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Beachcroft Stanleys
In The THES of November 20, on page 6 in the story entitled "Fear of funds shortfall brings HEFCE scrutiny", we referred to "Beachcroft Stanleys, solicitors for HEFCE and the Quality Assurance Agency...
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The art of the matter
Paul Bonaventura argues that fine art is disengaged with the real world, and the root of this lies in "the way art is taught in art schools" because they encourage "the unrestrained growth of...
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A frightening figure
Most of a spread in the Your Students supplement (THES, December 4) was devoted to trivial interests such as The Simpsons, while hidden away was the shocking statistic that participation in HE by...
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A licence to copy
The agreement reached between the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Copyright Licensing Agency is the result of joint negotiation between the primary rights-holders and the CVCP...
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Frugal book-buyers
You do well to highlight the financial pressures on university libraries ("Borrowers' life on the shelf, THES, December 4). But you do them a disservice in ignoring a major cooperative initiative...
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Four is really five
There are not four but five ancient Scottish universities ("Fat is a student issue", THES, November 20). There has been a university in Dundee for about 500 years and as such we were long ago awarded...
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Teaching-research link valuable
In arguing for splitting research from the assessment and funding of teaching in all post-compulsory education, your editorial is taking us further along the path of reinventing the binary divide ("...
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Teaching-research link valuable
The teaching or research debate occupies so much discussion in higher education and I have enormous personal sympathy for colleagues and students in the department of earth sciences at Sheffield...
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Assessment treadmill
Jim Parry ("The all-work and no play way to a degree", THES, November ) accurately describes the assessment treadmill. Not only do students have the pressure of numerous summative assessments...
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Readers' reactions
If more universities recognised that students are working instead of brushing the reality under the carpet there might be better control of what is actually going on and more benefit for students....
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Why I ... resigned as Conservative education spokesman in the Lords
In Great Britain we have very powerful political parties and a very powerful executive. I am concerned that any second chamber should be able to limit the executive. I was amazed that the government...
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Why I ... did not resign the Conservative whip last week
I was minded to resign originally because we were all so upset at the way things happened last Wednesday. Feelings were running high and a lot of people were talking about resigning. But I was...
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Tuition: to pay or not?
YES says Peter Younie, bursar of an Oxford College This year the family of every first-year student in this country became potentially liable to pay Pounds 1,000 towards the cost of their university...