Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles challenge the notion that Britain has too many students. The higher education sector in the United Kingdom has experienced virtually continuous growth in student...
Academics should be in the forefront of the campaign to press the new Labour administration to open up government, argue Iain McLean and Greg Terrill. So the Labour government will not introduce a...
ANTHEA MILLETT's letter about La Sainte Union, Southampton (THES, May 16), prompts two comments. The decision of the governing body not to appeal against withdrawal of its accreditation by the...
TWO comments, one question, a task, and a moral (sounds like a good movie - I hope Hugh Grant is free!) relating to Harriet Swain's excellent discussion of the postmodernist critique of history (THES...
YOU report (THES, May 9) that Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, "has urged universities and colleges to be more open about the way they distribute...
TWO points in Alison Utley's engaging but in places misleading piece "Battle over training models" (THES, May 2) need clarifying. First, I have not sent questionnaires to academics in Scotland. The...
I WAS disappointed to see in your articles on lecturers' unions (THES, May 16) although you referred to the Association of University Teachers Council you omitted any mention of my presidential...
LAST week the work of Kingsway College was disrupted by a one-day strike backed by fewer than 20 per cent of the college's lecturers. The action was driven through by a small political minority...
AM I alone in having reservations about the ever increasing movement towards a credit-based modular system of higher education? My problems, from the point of view of a technological subject, are...
Monday What time is it? Here in Chicago it is 6.30pm but, in my post-flight consciousness, it is after midnight and therefore Tuesday. Whichever, it is dark. Dimly-lit downtown looms like a manmade...
In a referendum on Sunday the Polish people look set to agree a new constitution, one that will, at long last, replace the model fraternally bequeathed by Stalin in 1952. The vote comes at a critical...
David Blunkett has been inundated with open letters but I have not seen a single mention of clerical and support staff. When staffing was mentioned it was fairly clear it meant academic and research...
(Photograph) - Tribal chic: The newsreader Trevor MacDonald, ill-fitting suits and Barbra Streisand were among the sources of inspiration for designs from Edinburgh College of Art fourth-year fashion...
NATFHE chief John Akker is to take legal advice on challenging the union procedures which led to his sudden suspension amid claims of incompetence. Union insiders say that former general secretary Mr...
Clearer and "more emphatic" guidelines are required for governing bodies in higher education, the National Audit Office has said. An NAO investigation into events which led to the resignation of Neil...