Partnership is the way forward
Dear Ron... Our two final open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education urge it to conisder the student point of view. Ghassan Kharian, co-ordinator of New Solutions, urges...
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Students to cash and carry credits
The practice of awarding academic credit to students is common in most universities and in many colleges. The award of credit has enabled institutions to recognise incremental progress towards named...
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Research done to order wastes 'time and money'
The "dogma" that high-quality teaching can only be done by serious researchers should be abandoned, according to the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Sir Ron...
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Vice police rely on netiquette, not legislation
Censorship of the Internet is impossible and decisions made about the computer network must reflect this reality, according to a University of Kent academic. Duncan Langford, a computing fellow, said...
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Deal struck with Mexico
Britain's burgeoning vocational education industry should enjoy a multi-million consultancy bonanza following the British Council's success in striking a Pounds 283,000 deal with the Mexican...
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Golden boy
Alumnus to be proud of no 65 is John T. Myers, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Indiana recently rated by George magazine as one of the top-10 pork-barrelers (securer of...
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Expansion vs. value for money
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The team of ten assigned by Sir Ron Dearing to...
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Blair treads worn US path
Much has been made of the "special relationship" between the major political parties in the United States and the United Kingdom in recent years. But the contacts between the Republicans and...
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Partnership is the way forward
Dear Ron... Our two final open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education urge it to conisder the student point of view. Jamie Darwen chair of the National Postgraduate...
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Panhandle alley
Idealism is not dead among young academics. One participant in the poster sessions at the American Political Science Association conference in San Francisco displayed a cardboard placard of the kind...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. If you are going to have to spend four hours sitting around an airport there are worse places to do it than Zagreb. There's parkland, a bar with an outside terrace and, because of the...
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Regions shun sport academy
Senior academics have strongly criticised the proposed British Academy of Sport, claiming it could become a "white elephant" and starve other sport sectors of funding. Margaret Talbot, head of sport...
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Labour relations
Science, innovation and technology are central to Labour's industrial strategy for improving Britain's competitiveness. Policies in the Business Prospectus, announced on Wednesday by Tony Blair,...
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Cider apples with a rosier health impact
A naturally occurring chemical that protects against heart disease could be added to certain foods in an attempt to improve the nation's health, a conference hears today. Because the substance is not...
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Scots get their voice
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Dearing's Scottish committee has a radically...