Bankrupt ideology of new right
I know that it is pointless to suggest to ideologues like David Marsland (THES, August 4) that calls for the re-application of right-wing policies - "smaller government, less taxes . . . et al" -...
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The new model university for the Millenium
Ray Cowell argues that seminal developments in recent years amount to re-inventing the role of institutions. The international debate on the future of higher education ranges over a perplexing number...
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Blur-ed view
I note that your issue of August 18 carries considerable coverage of the A level results. How are we supposed to evaluate this if we do not know how many A levels Blur and Oasis have got? TOM M....
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Beware the Iron Law of Elitism'
It cannot have escaped anybody's attention that students are becoming both relatively and absolutely impoverished. First grants were frozen, and then they were cut, leaving most with too little for...
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Common health games
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
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Anna of grand fables
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
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Breach in Web security
Queen's University, Belfast is having to check all 1,500 medical photographs held on a pilot orthopaedic teaching database, which until last Friday was linked to the World Wide Web, after a complaint...
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Admissions tutor Jenny Reed and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England
(Photograph) - Course countdown: admissions tutor Jenny Reed (right) and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England match students to places as clearing gets under way.
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Heavy paper weight
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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Strength is in unity for Scots FE lobbyists
Scotland's three further education organisations have joined together to create a single voice for the sector. The Employers' Association, the Association for Colleges Scotland and the Association...
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Grants-by-fraud hit institutions
Local education authorities and universities are complaining that their attempts to crack down on fraudulent grant applications are being penalised by Government policy. They want the Government to...
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Robots steeled to mend bridges
The expensive and hazardous business of repairing steel bridges could become a lot safer and cheaper with the help of robot technology developed by the defence industry for the remote disposal of...
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Disabled get raw deal from film world
Cinema presents twisted and stereotyped views of the real lives of disabled people, according to Paul Darke's research at Warwick University. Mr Darke, a postgraduate researcher in the department of...
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Scots look at stress on the rocks
A group of scientists at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities can genuinely describe their research as ground breaking. The Edinburgh Rock Mechanics Consortium has been investigating how rocks...