Think big and move for more mergers
Why are there so many universities in the United Kingdom? By this question I do not mean to imply that there are too many students, as some commentators claim. On the contrary, I have argued for some...
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Tale of two colleges and a new broom
Here is a tale of two colleges in one city. Last week the Teacher Training Agency in effect closed La Sainte Union College in Southampton by withdrawing accreditation from courses that account for...
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Green dawn of a Swampy age
One thing we can say with confidence about yesterday's election is that the electorate will have put in power a government whose policies on the environment are inadequate. British academic experts...
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The skills that fail to travel
University teachers have been urged and may soon be ordered to inculcate in students 'core', 'key' and 'transferable' skills. But, asks Terry Hyland, what do these worn words mean without a specific...
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Golden age of the don is not entirely a relic
The pay may be static, but the holidays are long, redundancies are rare and extra-curricular activities plentiful. So what do academics have to complain about? Vincenzo Raimo casts an outsider's eye...
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A joint body of work
Jonathan Sawday ("Livid and the dead", THES, April 18), did not go far enough in highlighting the plight of art and science. The human body has often been seen as a tool from which to learn. Dead or...
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Our escape from Colditz
Richard Cockett ("Please don't mention the war", THES, April 25) handles good evidence superficially and comes to some unjustifiably simplistic and alarmist conclusions. One of his arguments, the...
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Research: is it essential?
A genuine debate is slowly emerging about the relationship between teaching and research in higher education (THES, April 18). It was interesting to compare the thoughts of Alan Jenkins in his...
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Research: is it essential?
Philip Cerny says it is not necessary to do research to be a good teacher nor is it necessary for those who want to be a teacher to work in a secondary school, even if it does allow you to take...
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LSU is victim of a 'gross injustice'
The decision of the Teacher Training Agency to withdraw Initial Teacher Training accreditation from La Sainte Union College (THES, April 25) is a gross injustice that reflects unfairly on the...
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Mistaken identity
Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...
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Bespoke tuition for today's new readers
UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...
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Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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NUS to get corruption inquiry
The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...
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Don's diary
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...