V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
It is difficult to reconcile your coverage of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals's activities (THES, May 15) with reality. Despite suggestions to the contrary from your anonymous sources,...
It is difficult to reconcile your coverage of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals's activities (THES, May 15) with reality. Despite suggestions to the contrary from your anonymous sources,...
Vice-chancellors hold strong views and express them vigorously. They are, after all, academics; they feel passionately about higher education and preserving its quality. But your reporters should not...
As a vice-chairman of the CVCP I do not believe your coverage is representative of the view of the majority of members. You cite a small number of unnamed vice-chancellors expressing personal views....
When there was talk of a convergence of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics and the CVCP, I, as the CDP's public affairs director, was interviewed by the consultants producing a feasibility...
Tony Tysome's article "Cracks appear over QAA" (THES, May 15) has interpreted the CVCP's position statement as supporting a system of registered external examiners to review quality. This is not the...
Your editorial of April 17, 1998 about the approach of the QAA states that "there is little evidence that the academic community at large shares Sir Stewart Sutherland's anger at what is being done...
The consultation period for the structure, priorities and organisation of the Institute of Learning and Teaching is proving very useful, including, as it does, the airing of differing views and...
Chancellor Gordon Brown is again concerned about pay outstripping productivity ... what on earth will he do? He should "name and shame" the companies, sectors and company directors who are "over-...
DURING a seminar on transport and society in 1993 three of my students worked out a project that had us hastening two kilometres across town to a pub called the Graf Eberhard, named after the 15th-...
FOR TONY BLAIR, whose political instincts are inclusive and unsectarian, it is risky to attempt the inherently divisive project of designing an ideology under the rubric of "the third way" between...
Monday This is going to be a good week. I have to go into the university only once and have four whole days at home to work. Bliss. Of course, before I do any real work there is some marking, letters...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classic study of "playing the game": "Tuna Puna at the beginning of this...
Graeme Davies on Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica . I have in my bookshelf a presentation copy of Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica, which bears on its...
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