Tongue lashing
Alan Thomson is right to express criticism of the foolish notion that students can effortlessly learn a foreign language in the classroom in the same way that infants acquire their first language -...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Government and the funding councils should recognise that their initiatives for improving teaching and courses, access and employment-related skills will have no significant impact on higher...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Richard Bowring rightly rates one major article over four half-baked papers ("Premature publication", Letters, THES November 6). Why, though, does he think the RAE favours the latter? As a panel...
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Involved remedies
Mike Newby's view of teacher training (THES, Letters, ,October 23), is more realistic and even-handed than some of the doom-laden assessments seen recently. As he says, the situation is not terminal...
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Exams now and then
Can Penny Tucker (THES, Letters, 6 November) be serious in suggesting that in the 1960s schools taught to exams more than now? We hardly knew the format of exams let alone the kinds of questions that...
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Thames Valley out on report
Thames Valley University is facing an unprecedented degree of external control. This follows a damning report from the Quality Assurance Agency which has been investigating accusations of dumbing...
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Penalties for tuition fees over Pounds 1,000
The government this week restated its firm opposition to universities' excessive tuition fees after a Blairite think tank said that differentiated fees were "virtually inevitable". Senior government...
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Cambridge support for Dr Evans is not enough
More than 200 Cambridge University academics have supported calls to establish an independent review panel to consider lecturer Gill Evans' personal case for promotion. But Dr Evans's supporters were...
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Student loan bidders are shortlisted
Shortlisted bidders for the second government sale of Pounds 1 billion worth of student loan debt were announced this week. They are: Barclays Capital, a consortium of Deutsche Bank and the...
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Dental students have largest debt cavity
Dental students are Pounds 6,000 more in debt than the average student and nearly Pounds 2,000 more than medical students, according to a British Dental Association survey. It shows nearly nine in...
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Drugs researcher's tribunal is cancelled
An unfair dismissal bid against Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College by controversial drugs researcher Martin Plant has been withdrawn on the eve of a hearing to determine whether the case should go...
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Adult learners deterred because of funding gap
Adult learners face increased college course fees as a result of a "gap" in government funding priorities, an analysis by the Further Education Development Agency has found. Colleges may be forced to...
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Four London colleges say 'Yes' to SSEES
Four London University colleges have bid to merge with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. King's, University College London, Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths Colleges had registered...
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Tribunal gives ruling on sacked principal
An industrial tribunal is today expected to announce its decision in the unfair dismissal case brought against Glasgow Caledonian University by its former principal, Stan Mason. Dr Mason, fired by...
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Farmers take off their wellies to surf the web
Northwestern farmers are to be trained as slick marketing and communication experts with the help of almost Pounds 500,000 from the European Union and academic support from High Peak College, Buxton...