Myths and TV dinners
ANNE MURCOTT (THES, January 31) claims in her otherwise excellent article on the supposed demise of the family meal that there is little academic research which has focused on this topic. Our study...
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Wired West
Four West London colleges have spent Pounds 500,000 on technology to deliver courses on the Internet. Students on a variety of courses can access study material, submit assignments and correspond...
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Union puts squeeze on MPs' marginals
THE Association of University Teachers has launched a general election offensive on 16 marginal constituencies, warning sitting MPs and parliamentary candidates that they ignore pay and other higher...
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Open debate on support
This week The THES is publishing in full a document drawn up by a group of student union officers on the funding of higher education (pages 8 and 9). The THES has long argued that students must be...
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Sector fears Shephard's course intrusion
The new teacher training national curriculum is not only an inappropriate electioneering ploy but an intrusion into the autonomy of higher education, vice chancellors, principals and higher education...
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Local authorities prioritise access
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion ACCESS to higher education must be extended, not squeezed, the local government associations told...
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Students see red over green masters
FOUR GRADUATES are suing the Victoria University of Wellington over a masters course they believe was substandard. The claim, filed in the High Court last November, relates to an MA (applied)...
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Criminal obsession
The propensity for British women to fall for prisoners on death row is to become the focus of a study by Ellis Cashmore, professor of sociology at Staffordshire University. Professor Cashmore hopes...
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The straitjacket of forced uniformity
MUCH HAS been said recently about the diversity of British universities, but to what extent have cultural perceptions changed? As important, where is the political will to consider the issues of...
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Pay review bodies offer hidden solution
Martin Harris (THES, August 30) presents a cogent analysis of the plight universities face regarding academics' pay. As he says, this arises because they have more than satisfied the Government's two...
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Learning to love each other
The Association of Colleges' first annual conference this week heralded a new spirit of collaboration in the further education sector. It was not always so. Incorporation, three years ago, brought to...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Travel from Lagos to Ibadan. Have to wait until today because the highway is infested with armed robbers at night. Read a newspaper article explaining that the police are powerless, since...
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Inhumane geography
Delegates at last week's Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference at Exeter University found they had a new fan, local professor of education Ted Wragg....
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Teesside VR centre forges business links
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
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27 October 2006