Europe aims for just Aids approach
European Union countries should adopt a libertarian and progressive policy towards people with HIV and Aids, in contrast to the United States model which tends towards draconian measures in its...
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Campus security is a key issue
All of us in universities are ambivalent about safety and security on our campuses. We expect to be hermetically sealed against thieves, drug pushers and peeping toms but we resent any obvious...
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Cuts hamper search for quality
Universities and colleges still face serious challenges in improving quality management, according to a report out today. But funding cuts may hamper their attempts to tackle weaknesses, say the...
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Kingsway pair seeks review
A former student union president expelled and a fellow officer suspended from Kingsway College were to appear before the Legal Aid Board yesterday to seek support for a judicial review of their case...
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Scots lead student U-turn
Student moderates are increasingly hopeful that the National Union of Students will abandon its traditional call for the restoration of full grants at its Blackpool conference next week, following a...
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Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...
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Teaching courses set a price-list
The Teacher Training Agency has dropped plans to introduce a "crude" payment-by-results element into its 1997/98 funding system unveiled today. But it is to press ahead with setting common price...
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Prosaic solution to unspoken issues
Fiona is in the final year of an honours degree in architecture. In tutorials she discusses issues fluently. Her tutors have been impressed by the imagination in her design work. But Fiona is...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
Eric Forth (THES, March 22) is unfit to be a minister in an education department, for he shows himself to have not even a beginner's idea of what education is about. Inability to find books in the...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
The manufacturer, Fila, is representing its shoes through the advertising campaign "The best F in shoes". In the light of last week's colourful interchange on the link between resources and quality,...
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The professionals take the stage
The Dearing inquiry will also be an inquiry into professional education, for two reasons. First, preparation for the professions constitutes a big chunk of what universities and colleges do. Second,...
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Just a push at an open door
Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education starts in a few weeks. Below, academics kick off debate in The THES with their views on what evidence he should consider. The Dearing review is Britain's...
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Meaningful shifts
Jean Aitchison (THES, March 22) is right to reject the pedantic, xenophobic and snobbish prejudice of many of her correspondents. But she quotes with evident approval a sneering attempt to stereotype...
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Labour looks likely winner
It is risky to forecast the result of the general election with the contest perhaps more than one year away. Unlike 1992, the economy will probably not be in recession and the recent past should warn...