Cash for skill base in dispute
Half of Britain's young people should be expected to continue their education after 16 for at least four years, education leaders were told last week. Sir Bryan Nicholson, former president of the...
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Learning distanced from reality in India
I enjoyed the opinion piece "IT can not replace eye-to-eye" (THES, December 6, 1996). If the scenario depicted exists in a developed country like the United Kingdom, one could well imagine the...
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Scientists get teaching ideas mail base
Science lecturers will soon be able to use new technology to exchange tips on teaching. Jonathan Ling, director of studies for physics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, is...
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Myopic elites
For many years Oxford, Cambridge and London played a highly constructive role in helping to set up other universities. It is therefore deeply ironic that members of these universities are prominent...
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Labour protects jobs
THE Labour party has pledged to outlaw waiver clauses for university researchers on fixed-term contracts despite fears that the change could cost the sector millions of pounds a year. The party's...
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Mix and match
The traditional campus model of a university is inappropriate for today's students' needs, says Bryan Nicholson, who believes a creative blend of further and higher education provision is the way to...
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School heads threaten boycott
SCHOOL heads have threatened to boycott classroom-based initial teacher training in a bid to sink controversial Government early retirement plans. The National Association of Head Teachers' action...
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Dodging the FE shrapnel
These days, when politicians discuss learning they mentally drop the L. In the run-up to a bitter general election battle no one can afford to forget about money for a moment. For further education...
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Survey reveals crisis fears
BRITISH academics think that higher education is in deep financial and academic trouble; but they cannot agree on a solution. A survey of academic staff from junior researchers to vice chancellors,...
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Scottish ratings rise
NINE out of 12 discipline groupings in Scotland have improved their research ratings, according to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. A SHEFC summary, using weighted-average ratings to...
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Informers and aliens in our midst
"We took no notice of these pedestrians. We didn't know if they felt sorry for us or if they were laughing at us. But doubtless we no longer existed for them, because they wished us not to exist, so...
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Dearing: lighten the gloom, please
The mood of pessimism in higher education has hardened noticeably in the past three years. Academics interviewed for The THES's latest survey (page 8) are even more concerned at the damage student...
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Errors in paradise
Derek Freeman is interesting and convincing in reiterating his well-known demolition of Margaret Mead's "evidence" for sexual permissiveness in Samoa (THES, December ). But he is surely as...
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Academic democracy
Many in Cambridge, including its vice chancellor, would argue that a great university has a responsibility arising out of its natural privileges to seek to act with generosity for the benefit of the...
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Pensions advice
Christopher Williams (THES, December 20) says academics must question how their pensions are invested. The Association of University Teachers raises this issue at Universities Superannuation Scheme...