Pecking order
Frank Gould (THES, January 17) rightly points to the improved performance of former polytechnics in the 1996 RAE but his two role models - the 1960s universities and the advanced technology colleges...
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Pecking order
Now that the waves of the 1996 RAE are subsiding, we should consider if and when there should be another. One relevant factor is the cost estimated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Don's Diary
Monday Long flight south overnight with a group of colleagues to Mauritius for the summer school of a degree programme we offer there through flexible learning. We are the first flight allowed in for...
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Pension harmony
The response by Joan Gordon, Natfhe's pension officer (THES January 24), to the proposal for a Higher Education Superannuation Scheme, is that to set up a new pension scheme "is likely to result in a...
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Fat is a contentious issue
Professor Klein (Praise the Lard, THES, January 24) is right to criticise anorexic fashion and the dangerous slimming mania it has spawned. But his history is confused and glib. To establish past...
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Fat is a contentious issue
Richard Klein misses two vital points. One is that in the European context at least, fatness has nearly always been admired in women, not in men; and the other is that extreme fatness and extreme...
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Title fight
The handling of Bolton's application for a university title in 1996/97 (THES, January 24) is entirely in line with Government policy - no special favours and nothing to do with Tory marginals. This...
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How to teach: an old dog, new tricks
I AM ALWAYS impressed by the alacrity with which some newly appointed vice chancellors say they will carry on teaching. Anthony Giddens, incoming director of the London School of Economics, is a...
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Chinese solution to a puzzle
AS A VISITOR to Britain looking at the press, radio and television, one soon notices that China's amazing transformation is hardly reported. Few people are conscious of the huge success of over one...
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Universities split over share-out
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known FUNDING weightings attached to grades awarded in the latest research assessment...
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Prior options abandoned
THE GOVERNMENT has backed down on plans to privatise research council laboratories. The prior options study, a Government privatisation probe of more than 40 public sector research facilities,...
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Opera woos islands
THE Pavarotti Foundation has proposed setting up a classical music and opera college on the Hebridean island of Eigg. The plan would give the University of the Highlands and Islands project a fillip...
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Citizen soldier
(Photograph) - Citizen soldier: A London student learns to shoot with the University Officers Training Corps. The Government believes in a link between a good education, army discipline and...
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Physics axed
The University of East Anglia has voted to axe its physics degree blaming falling student numbers. The university's senate last week approved the closure of undergraduate courses with no new students...
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NAO call for ombudsman
Swansea scandal prompts action. The National Audit Office has called for the establishment of an ombudsman for higher education after reviewing events which led to "a breakdown in both governance and...