Learning wisdom
It was a pleasure to read Gerald Vinten's article "Curbs needed on rule of fear" (THES, June 13) with its positive reference to South-ampton Institute. Here we are indeed discussing ethical codes and...
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The art of appraisal
Anthony Everitt's discourse on the iniquities of the research assessment exercise's appraisal of creative artistic work (THES, June 20) is wide of the mark and out of date. Higher Education Funding...
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Let us wait for Dearing
You reported (THES, June 20) that at least ten vice chancellors were opposing the introduction of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's new method for distributing money to universities...
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Squaring the circle of support
You say (THES, June 20) that David Blunkett is getting tetchy because of the failure to find a way of shifting student support off the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement. I am not surprised. The...
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Welcome criticism
The Teacher Training Agency's work over the past two years has been high profile and challenging. One of the things that the pamphlet by Pat Mahoney and Ian Hextall (THES, June 20) ignores is the...
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Eastern premise
I turned with interest to your analysis of higher education provision in the east of the United Kingdom (THES, June 13). Imagine my disappointment to discover the incomplete picture of what is...
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Don's diary
Monday The BBC Wednesday Plays and postwar British drama project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is now in its second year and my mail is becoming relentless. Mondays are...
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External assessors need a fairer deal
ENDof term, Wimbledon, the lure of 2. Such are the delights of late June and early July. External examining, on the other hand, is unlikely to be what academics enjoy most about the start of summer....
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Saving for a brainy sort of pay
TRADITIONALLY, there have been three ways of financing higher education: through tuition fees, state support, or private charitable contributions. But I would like to propose a fourth option - the...
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Blackstone promises no dilution of A levels
The Government will not "water down the standard of A levels", education and employment minister Tessa Blackstone insisted this week. Baroness Blackstone was keen to appease her detractors amid...
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On-job training is way forward
There are too many young people in schools, colleges and universities, Cambridge University professor of education and senior government adviser David Hargreaves said this week. More young people...
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Wiles plus Fermat equals a tidy sum
British mathematician Andrew Wiles was today due to receive the coveted and unique Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem - marking the climax of one of the greatest mathematical...
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Textiles with a point
(Photograph) - Mari Masuda beside her work for the visual arts degree show at Goldsmiths College, University of London, last week.
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Science shows signs of upturn
The crisis-point dearth of school-leavers applying for science degrees is over, Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service said this week. There has been an...
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Kennedy calls off raid on universities
HELENA Kennedy QC has been forced to clarify demands to redistribute resources between further and higher education after protests from vice chancellors seeking cross-sector unity in the campaign for...