Laurie Taylor Column
TEACHING: ON THE FRONT LINE What is your experience of teaching? The THES asks teachers how they manage. Name? Dr Piercemuller. Age? Pardon? Age? A long way off early retirement. Job? Reader...
TEACHING: ON THE FRONT LINE What is your experience of teaching? The THES asks teachers how they manage. Name? Dr Piercemuller. Age? Pardon? Age? A long way off early retirement. Job? Reader...
TEACHING: ON THE FRONT LINE What is your experience of teaching? The THES asks teachers how they manage. Name? Dr Piercemuller. Age? Pardon? Age? A long way off early retirement. Job? Reader...
Tony Blair and Charles Clarke, the education secretary, put some welcome flesh on the bones of the government's higher education policy this week. For those with doubts about top-up fees, it is...
One aspect of the fees debate that is not addressed in the higher education bill or its accompanying student-support package is the position of gap-year students. Ministers had let it be known that...
Tony Blair and Charles Clarke, the education secretary, put some welcome flesh on the bones of the government's higher education policy this week. For those with doubts about top-up fees, it is...
One aspect of the fees debate that is not addressed in the higher education bill or its accompanying student-support package is the position of gap-year students. Ministers had let it be known that...
There is a lot of muddled thinking about "poor" students ("Grants gamble to save bill", THES , January 9), though not by Charles Clarke. All students are poor. It is their backgrounds and families...
If anyone is still confused about the ideology behind Labour's project, they should read "Blair bets all on wooing rebels" ( THES , January 9). Wendy Piatt of the Institute of Public Policy Research...
I am a lecturer about to be made redundant by an institution that is not overstaffed but is desperately underfunded. In eight months, just under half my department will have left, more than a third...
The higher education bill will not make decisions of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator legally binding, as you suggest ("Upfront fees ditched as access and complaints are fine-tuned", THES ,...
It is misleading to suggest that "laboratory-based subjects will not lose out" on teaching funding ("Hefce teaching windfall is boost for humanities", THES , January 9). In arriving at the...
I read with interest of the plumber who completed a higher national diploma and a degree and became a university lecturer ("Brave Scots win minds", THES , January 9). I wonder how his/her new role...
There is no evidence that open access is censoring publication according to ability to pay (Letters, THES , January 9). As Iain Stevenson admits, the publication fee is being waived when authors...
Many journals owned and published by scientific societies put surpluses generated back into science. The Society for Experimental Biology, which owns the Journal of Experimental Botany and part owns...
We utterly reject Dawn Chatty's version of her daughter's account of her interview for a place to read medical sciences at Downing College, Cambridge ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES...