Golden eye
(Photograph) - David Bateman, multimedia officer at the University of Greenwich, with the BAFTA award he won as part of the creative team behind Ceremony of Innocence, an interactive CD-Rom from...
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Doom for discourse is premature
We need critics like Dale Spender (page 17), who does excellent work in her Australian academic post and has sufficient media income to speak freely and sharply about universities and the university...
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Two unions divided by their similarities
Natfhe's problem and AUT's virtue lie in their respective images, says Tom Wilson Last July I left my office at the Association of University Teachers for the last time. After ten years it was time...
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More to learning than job skills
For a government that enjoys urging couples to get married and advising parents what time their children should come home, telling universities what to teach is all in a day's work. But the idea (...
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Flying the flag
I was taken aback by Geoffrey Alderman's remark (THES, "Will kite-mark fly overseas", October 23) "... if my own experiences are anything to go by, the role of the British Council in defending...
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Engineering disaster by computer
I was interested in the article about the numerical errors produced by the inexactness of some computer-processing routines ("Cutting edge", THES, October 23). But I take issue with the view that all...
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Tongue lashing
We were puzzled by the simplistic dichotomy between grammar and communication presupposed by Alan Thomson's article "Double speak" (THES October 30). The suggestion that pendulums swing back and...
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Tongue lashing
Alan Thomson is right to express criticism of the foolish notion that students can effortlessly learn a foreign language in the classroom in the same way that infants acquire their first language -...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Government and the funding councils should recognise that their initiatives for improving teaching and courses, access and employment-related skills will have no significant impact on higher...
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Malignancy of the RAE
Richard Bowring rightly rates one major article over four half-baked papers ("Premature publication", Letters, THES November 6). Why, though, does he think the RAE favours the latter? As a panel...
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Involved remedies
Mike Newby's view of teacher training (THES, Letters, ,October 23), is more realistic and even-handed than some of the doom-laden assessments seen recently. As he says, the situation is not terminal...
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Exams now and then
Can Penny Tucker (THES, Letters, 6 November) be serious in suggesting that in the 1960s schools taught to exams more than now? We hardly knew the format of exams let alone the kinds of questions that...
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Thames Valley out on report
Thames Valley University is facing an unprecedented degree of external control. This follows a damning report from the Quality Assurance Agency which has been investigating accusations of dumbing...
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Penalties for tuition fees over Pounds 1,000
The government this week restated its firm opposition to universities' excessive tuition fees after a Blairite think tank said that differentiated fees were "virtually inevitable". Senior government...
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Cambridge support for Dr Evans is not enough
More than 200 Cambridge University academics have supported calls to establish an independent review panel to consider lecturer Gill Evans' personal case for promotion. But Dr Evans's supporters were...