Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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New ending from the history man
Francis Fukuyama tells David Walker why greater trust between people would lead to more prosperity. Alfred Schutz is not a name that appears among the many social thinkers listed in the compendious...
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Virtual politics, as seen on TV
Did Clinton's health care reforms perish in the glare of the TV lights? ask Edwin Diamond and Robert Silverman. At one point in the mid-1990s, the number one and number two bestselling books in the...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...
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Marks upgrade for 4,000
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...
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Wanted: local heroes
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
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NUS quizzes members on student funding
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
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Overlap concern
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
