Blunkett's funding muddle
Should poorer students shoulder bigger debts, asks Ben Jackson. As THIS YEAR's A-level results precipitate a frenzied scramble for university places before the introduction of tuition fees, it is...
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Fees for all, fair for all
WHAT many people have missed in the tuition fees debate is the massive cultural shift in the expectations of people from a working-class background. When I left school at 16 university was far...
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Bargaining for books
SO MOST students cannot buy all the necessary course texts (In Brief THES, August 22). I would love to be able to go out and buy all my course texts, and, if I was wealthy, believe me I would do so....
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Down and out by degrees
Should poorer students shoulder bigger debts, asks Ben Jackson. They do already, says Annette O'Hara, below NO TLONG ago I was at a graduation, my husband's: a day we had waited nearly five years for...
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Copying America
AT FIRST sight the Dearing report appears to be another case of creeping Americanisation of higher education, with adoption of a fee-paying regime to follow the modular structure, consumerist ethos,...
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Copying America
IT IS welcome that The THES is once again giving attention to issues affecting mature students, but I think you are being unnecessarily and unhelpfully sensationalist. I am hardly one of Dearing's...
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Copying America
DEARING recommendations in favour of better formal training for teachers in higher education are to be applauded, and my own institution offers an excellent opportunity for both new and existing...
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Don's diary
Monday The flights to Africa do not leave until midnight so I use a free day to explore Lisbon, capital of the old empire, before visiting the empire itself. Check with my publisher that the...
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A great but flawed president
ARGUABLY the most important thing to happen in Washington DC this summer had little to do with Republicans and Democrats and their efforts to reveal each other's campaign finance shenanigans. What...
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The f-word that will change everything
WHEN student loans were introduced I remember quoting a reassuring statement from the then Department of Education and Science that the value of the loan would not reach 50 per cent of the...
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Economist backs Scots tax
A "TARTAN tax" under a Scottish parliament could mean higher profits for Scottish businesses, and attract inward investment, according to a leading academic economist. The run-up to the Scottish...
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Sussex close to Nasa deal
ELECTRICAL engineers at Sussex University were this week expected to sign a deal with Nasa to design a linear electric motor to help launch spacecraft. The technology could soon help Nasa save...
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Scientific peer review 'in crisis'
UNIVERSITIES are facing a crisis of peer review according to Southampton vice chancellor Howard Newby, who this week publicly criticised the top-down style of scientific management emerging in higher...
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The truth will out
Misprint or Freudian slip? A sharp-eyed reader draws our attention to the passage in the annual report of a northern university which explains that the institution had had its staff:student ratio...
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Appreciative audiences turn on sex-show women
Sex performers 'enjoy' their own shows WOMEN who perform in illegal live sex shows may get a sexual buzz from their work, according to new research. Bill Thompson, a criminologist at Reading...