Who is leading the call for QAA review?
The Higher Education Funding Council for England’s announcement on 7 October of a “quality assessment” consultation came as quite a surprise.Hefce says this is to take place in conjunction with the...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England’s announcement on 7 October of a “quality assessment” consultation came as quite a surprise.Hefce says this is to take place in conjunction with the...
The Oxford student contract was born several years ago from a laudable wish to ensure that students know the terms of the contract that exists between a student and a university. In the case of...
For researchers in the arts and humanities, libraries are an important "non-laboratory estates resource" ("Ill-prepared institutions may miss out on cash", August 26). When the libraries are of...
Gamma minus for clear-headedness to the drafters of the Higher Education Act 2004 ("Union calls for strong watchdog", August ) on one or two additional points. They have neglected to repeal the...
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
David Palfreyman's points to a problem with "well-meaning amateur dons as part-time committee hacks" (Letters, THES, December 8). That problem is far worse in Cambridge, and it concerns me that...
The "Cameron report" clears Imperial College of victimisation of Peter Dawson for raising concerns in the public interest about protections of patient safety (Whistleblowers, THES , November 3). The...
We will pay too high a price for independenceThe results of your survey show that a majority of Scottish academics will vote “no” in the referendum on 18 September and that an even larger proportion...
The Majid case at London Guildhall University (THES, May 19) ought to be causing great public concern on three counts, apart from the central one of injustice to an individual. Guildhall has spent...
Students need a tough consumer advocateMartin McQuillan argues that the market for undergraduate higher education is broken and that Which? should step away from the role we have played as an...