Why no one can bank on this loans plan
Haste born of financial desperation is not a good recipe for fundamental reform, warns Christopher Johnson. The student loan scheme announced in the Queen's Speech makes me despair. In 1989, as chief...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
The argument presented by Simon Szreter on A-level grades (THES, November 17) could hardly be more misconceived. Data collected by the ALIS survey, run by Carol Fitzgibbon, professor in the...
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Student unrest hits Paris
Student action in France has escalated and spread to some of the Paris universities as education minister Francois Bayrou's attempt to tackle complaints about unfair allocation of teachers and...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
I am studying for four "hard" science A levels and was naturally alarmed by Simon Szreter's inference that my grades may be worth less than those of my peers taking "softer" subjects. I do agree that...
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Marathon achievement
The profession may not like them but the public does. Parents and potential students are coming increasingly to rely on them. League tables are here to stay - and indeed officially sanctioned ones...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
Before writing an intemperate article using terms such as "scandalous", "prejudice" and "hunch", it would have been wise if Cambridge historian Simon Szreter had checked a few sources. He would have...
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Advancing the cause of nations
We, the editors of Nations and Nationalism, were pleased that the journal was reviewed (THES, October 20). However Nations and Nationalism "is not self-consciously attempting to create a space for...
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Bogeymen and demons of GNVQ
Ron Barnett (THES, November 17) makes a number of very fair criticisms of the NCVQ consultative document on higher-level GNVQs. It is a pity that he mars these by seemingly ruling out the possibility...
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Policy? What policy?
Despite all its shortcomings, there are a few pleasant things about the French system of higher education. One of them is that this writer is never short of copy. Yesterday Le Monde carried the...
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This sceptical isle
Britain is dead, long live. . . what exactly? David Cannadine on the making of the "new British history" and its future During the election campaign for the European Parliament which was fought out...
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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 service...
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On speck
Darren Speck, now a student at the University of Warwick, was at Mid Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa when he won the BTEC engineering student of the year award for his mountain bike design (...
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Ain't nobody like the body
When you gather round the piano this Christmas, simultaneously educate yourself in biochemistry with some ditties from the The Biochemists' Songbook. What better way of making use of that dead time...