Heavenly revelations
If we want to find the significance of bluestones to Neolithic society, the Stonehenge diggers should look up, not down, says Lionel Sims
If we want to find the significance of bluestones to Neolithic society, the Stonehenge diggers should look up, not down, says Lionel Sims
Your claim that the Isle of Thanet is "the largest population centre in the country without its own higher education provision" ("New campus brings hope to Thanet", THES, May 12) is disputed by my...
The Quality Assurance Agency's retreat from the Dearing recommendation that students should have access to an "independent" and "external" system to review complaints and appeals is not justified by...
Swindon is to have a campus offering degree and postgraduate programmes run by Bath University. It will be based in the town centre with a second site at Oakfield School, where teaching is due to...
Success through Failure - How Invention Begins
Ghost suits and puppetry skills are helping Stirling University researchers reintroduce the Great Bustard to Britain 175 years after it died out here. Patrick Osborne, senior lecturer in...
It is hard to imagine that an education ombudsman working under the jurisdiction of university visitors will achieve the independence or impartiality required to comply with Article 6 of the Human...
It is not surprising that UUK is ducking out of a fight with the government over funding. Vice-chancellors, like much of British academe, lack a crucial weapon in any contest: the willingness to...
It is the RAE outcome, and not subject review scores, that is the defining standard by which the old universities judge themselves and, as a result, many academics now regard teaching as a burden and...
Imperial College and UCL discuss merger feasibility Imperial College London and University College London are dicussing a merger. The colleges want to compete more effectively on the global stage....
Let rich pay £5,000 tuition fees, says Oxford master The top 20 universities must be allowed to charge tuition fees of at least £5,000 a year if the decline in academic quality is to be halted, Lord...
Let rich pay £5,000 tuition fees, says Oxford master The top 20 universities must be allowed to charge tuition fees of at least £5,000 a year if the decline in academic quality is to be halted, Lord...
When Sally Hunt was elected general secretary of the Association of University Teachers in 2002, she became the second woman to head the union since it was founded in 1919. She was also, at 37, one...
Digging the Dirt