Cult-watch centre faces closure
A unique centre for the study of religious cults based at the London School of Economics may be forced to close due to a lack of money, writes Alan Thomson. The Information Network Focus on Religious...
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Common sense on complaints
The THES has blown out of the water claims by the university sector that it can handle student complaints ("From mark to blemish",Whistleblowers, THES, February 5). Sadly, Sunderland could have been...
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Need for inspection
Peter Knight's recommendation that Ofsted handle higher education quality control (THES, "Outsiders looking in", February 5) is entirely logical. It is, of course, true, that Ofsted has achieved a...
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Need for inspection
Peter Knight makes a good case for a system of external inspection to replace the labour-intensive and unsatisfactory QAA systems. As someone who has emerged into the teaching and learning arena from...
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Letters in brief
I suspect that one item in your report about vice-chancellors' salaries will be of interest to low-paid university workers. George Bain, now vice-chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, is being...
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Letters in brief
Wishing to contact the University of Leeds recently with a course inquiry I logged on to its web page, went to "s" in the alphabetical list of departments looking for student-related functions and...
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Letters in brief
Further to the letter from Miles Scott (January 29) about lecturers' restricted holiday entitlement at the University of North London, it has clearly escaped the notice of UNL management that the...
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Alarm over inequality
Ronald Crawford, of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, claims that the recent research by Bob Osborne on the relative chances of working-class students entering higher education...
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Alarm over inequality
According to David Roberts of Heist (THES Letters, February 5), research indicates that students from lower income groups apply for a limited range of subjects in relatively few local institutions....
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Subject centres work
Your article on the higher education funding councils' proposed subject centres/networks dismissed the work of educational "do-gooders" as a largely failed method for promoting innovative teaching (...
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Appeal on standards
There has been growing concern about alleged dilution of academic standards in British universities and degree-awarding colleges. There is a need to find out if the allegation is well founded. Mantz...
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Mammon's imprint
Oxford University Press, which enjoys charitable trust status, is now in the hands of 'barbarians' who put profit before poetry, says Valentine Cunningham Oxford University Press is making a fool of...
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Lifelong paper is lacking in coherence, AUTS says
The Scottish Office has failed to produce a coherent plan in its green paper on lifelong learning, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. In its response to Opportunity Scotland,...
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Lecturer fights 'corruption'
Barcelona Spanish university appointments procedures that seem to favour internal candidates over better qualified lecturers returning from posts overseas are being challenged in the courts. Antonio...
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Peace moves
(Photograph) - Ethnic Albanian students at the University of Pristina ended a day's hunger strike after the Yugoslav government and Kosovar leaders agreed to this week's peace talks outside Paris...