To kickbox or tickbox
I agree wholeheartedly with Alison Wolf on competence-based assessment ("Trying to box clever", THES, March 31). She has identified what we in further education have always said: "It is too top-down...
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Trade in your skills
The online age of learning is here.Universities that lack e-courses will go bust, warns Dale Spender. There can be no question about the existence of e-universities; they are as much a reality of the...
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Why the public should listen to scientists
The Royal Society - unaccountable elitism or democratic expertise? Harry Kroto defends the RS. The article by Tom Wakeford (Soapbox, THES, March 24) bound up some important questions. It talked about...
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Madrid
The University of Cantabria is paying students up to Pounds 300 a year to check lectures as part of a quality assurance strategy. Volunteers from 31 departments report on who gives the lecture, its...
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La Plata
All 150 applicants for tourism courses at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata are threatening to sit in on lectures because of the university's failure to publish the mathematics entry examination...
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Boost for Midlands
The University of Wolverhampton has launched an initiative to help boost Midlands' industry. The move comes as the region attempts to gauge the economic damage caused by BMW's proposed sale of the...
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Funding revamp shifts focus of science
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. A bill to revamp Swedish research funding...
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Hot air and cold bodies illuminated by aurorae
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. In the Swedish arctic, halfway between...
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Key to the past is contested
A remarkable medieval correspondence long held to reveal how English society disintegrated on the eve of the War of the Roses may have been misinterpreted by historians. The Paston Letters, one of...
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Runt of the universe found
It is the runt of our galaxy's stellar litter. The smallest brown dwarf, a "failed" star that barely glimmers, has been detected by astronomers. Weighing in at just less than ten times the mass of...
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Science PhD - who needs it?
Three reports highlight the low morale of science research students. Natasha Loder spoke to broke postgrads struggling to stay motivated. Annie Dugdale is a biology research student from the...
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'Class-ridden' sector slated
Admissions tutors who consider themselves guardians of the quality of higher education are blocking access to university for people from under-represented groups, a conference will hear next week....
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NUS elects independent
The National Union of Students elected its first independent leader for 30 years this week at a conference that pledged to reform the student movement. Owain James, 23, NUS national secretary for the...
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NUS conference
Delegates at the NUS conference gave overwhelming support to the Cubie report in Scotland and pledged to fight to introduce it in the rest of the United Kingdom. They voted to campaign for a mixed...
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New Ofsted inspection prompts call for radical reform
School standards watchdog Ofsted's first inspection of further education provision has led to calls for sweeping reform of 16-19 education across an East London region. The report, published today,...