Lights, cameras...no action
Media studies has proved enormously popular, but Ian Christie belives it has not lived up to its early promise and student Mireilli Fowler (box) explains why she was initially disillusioned with her...
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A little extra ordinary
A favourite Dutch saying is: "Ordinary is extraordinary enough." The expression says much about Dutch attitudes. Common sense, pragmatism and (false) modesty are important values. This has left its...
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Tips for Dearing from the south
It has been interesting to read reports of reactions to South Africa's national commission on the future of higher education discussion document. I was privileged to attend the recent Salzburg...
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Ulster tries to bridge divide
The article on sectarianism in Ulster colleges (THES, May 3) painted a very negative picture of student attitudes in Northern Ireland. It failed to focus on the community relations work being carried...
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Unfair to blame LEA employers
Smith, Marcus and Peacock (THES, Letters, May 17) blame the breakdown of talks on terms and conditions for local authority-employed FE staff on the "cynicism" of the employers' side. Their attitude...
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Library lowdown
Seating demand at the controversial new British Library building at St Pancras may oustrip supply, says a National Audit Office report. Technical problems have led costs to soar since building...
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Board ballot
Members of the Association for Colleges have resolved unanimously to merge with the Colleges Employers Forum from August. Ballots for board membership of the Association for British Colleges (...
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Cooking on gas
Alumna to be proud of No 49 is at the centre of what may have been the most vitriolic exhange yet between a privatised company and its regulator. Clare Spottiswoode, director general of gas supply,...
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Ofsted off course
Neil Buxton, vice chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, was a little puzzled at the deficiencies of a letter addressed to him as "Director, University of Lancaster, Hatfield, Hertfordshire...
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Dream come true
Allan Stewart, pickaxe-wielding Conservative MP for Eastwood, has just published his autobiography, The Long March of the Market Men. He reveals that he was able to attend St Andrews University with...
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Nolan shines complaint torch
University and college staff and students would have new channels for complaints under recommendations expected to be made this week by Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life. Further and...
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Italian jobs favour foreign professors
The article by Dr Davies on Italian universities (THES, April 26) raises some well-taken points, which are being widely discussed in Italy. However it contains a very serious imprecision, which I...
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Union checked
Universities and colleges are to spell out how they have implemented student union reforms. Eric Forth, higher education minister, is checking that the principles of "choice, fairness, democracy,...
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Asylum quirk
The Government has promised to review its Asylum and Immigration Bill after vice chancellors raised fears that overseas students and universities would fall foul of legislation barring foreign...