En suite and sour
Hotel-style digs with price tags to match offer students comfort and universities income, so why isn’t everyone keen on such schemes? wonders Alison Utley Dishwashers, leather sofas, broadband, flat-...
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Students fill the places and we focus on the spaces to make things happen
People expect a campus to have modern amenities and be sustainable. The estate manager must balance such demands, says Peter Kerr A university is often recognised by its estate, and many use it as...
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Two days in the life: Go for that wow factor...
…but does good design have to break the bank? wonders UCE estates director Graham Rhodes, as he battles with budgets, builders and casts an eye over a blueprint or two FEBRUARY 12, 2007 9am–11am It’s...
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Find a partner: join a carbon dating agency that makes a difference
Universities keen to cut their carbon footprint can join a consortium that will help them to minimise their energy costs. Andrew Fields explains The Government’s 2006 climate change programme put the...
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Specials index 3
Learning & skills in HE Published: June 01 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track Work-based learning Published: May 11 2007 "One of the most important ways...
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Specials index 4
Microsoft supplement Published: June 22 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track  ...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Leeds Metropolitan University plans to impose a set of 'attitudes and behaviours' that includes the expectation that academic staff will 'go the extra mile', show 'courtesy and respect' and have a '...
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Alan Ryan
First, the obligatory declaration: both my parents left school before their 14th birthdays, one grandfather drove trucks and the other was a shot-firer on the South Yorkshire coal field. Actually,...
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Leader: We must tackle the literacy crisis
It is a mark of how committed academics are to their students and to teaching that there has been no outcry nationally over the levels of students' preparedness for university study. Lecturers do not...
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Leader: Too much Kant?
Plato, apparently, had little time for business and businessmen, believing that only the worst types of people bothered with such stuff. But then he was in the habit of denying the reality of the...
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Why we cancelled Kuntzel 1
Matthias Kuntzel asks: "Is there no longer room for debate?" at Leeds University (Opinion, March 23). There certainly is. We are committed to promoting and encouraging debate, inquiry and protest. We...
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Why we cancelled Kuntzel 2
When academics fail to argue for their freedom, how do they expect students to treat university as anything more than the first step on the career ladder? Matthias Kuntzel's attempted lecture was...
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Friends, not foes
The issues confronting lecturers and researchers are more complex than you allow ("Hunt faces rough ride from Left on NEC", March 23). The commercialisation and commodification of higher learning and...
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Open to errors
As staff at Sussex University's Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Brighton University's Centre for Research in Innovation Management Centre, we are greatly concerned at the poorly...
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Read carefully
Katie Gramich (Letters, March 16) accuses me of seeing devolution only as a "problem" and of considering solely the English aspect of it in my review of Christopher Bryant's The Nations of Britain (...