Leak reveals quality 'A' team
THES reporters examine the latest plans from the Quality Assurance Agency. External examiners Quality chiefs are preparing to recruit an army of "academic reviewers" to check whether external...
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Pluses and minuses
The debate about league tables is critical. It is almost, but not quite, correct to argue that "what counts cannot always be tabulated" (THES, April 23). The vital word "easily" ought to be added at...
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Pluses and minuses
Hooray for the egalitarianism of The THES in compiling the list of "Top institutions in 70 subjects" (THES, April 23), so that the academic world realises that higher education colleges can exceed...
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Pluses and minuses
I realise that tables are meant only as snapshots, nevertheless, omissions can mislead. In the research funding league poster (THES, April 23), a high placing was recorded for the "University of...
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Pluses and minuses
On the same day that you carried league tables for universities, you published a report showing that higher education is to be left out of the "radical reform" of post-compulsory education (THES,...
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Culture clash on the way to work
David Blunkett's proposals ("Make work part of study, THES, April 23) that humanities students should undertake work experience and a module "related to enterprise, work and the potential for...
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Culture clash on the way to work
Having read David Blunkett's article, I must comment on a number of points. I do so on the basis of many years' experience working with and advising undergraduates on both vocational and academic...
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Culture clash on the way to work
David Blunkett's announcement that every student ought to have a period of work experience is warmly welcomed. However, the parameters need to be identified, and much investment needs to take place...
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Dash for trash
David Cannadine lambasted the research assessment exercise for "inflating the quantity of output" and "deflating the quality" ("Flaws of supply with no demand", THES, April 23). He said that a "...
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Dash for trash
Where is the evidence of super-abundance and "frenzied energy" in the figures quoted by David Cannadine? Do they not simply indicate that while the historians who actually did publish in 1989...
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Brits still go abroad
Your article "Brits reluctant to study abroad" (THES, April 16) was misleading. It referred only to Socrates/ Erasmus exchanges, which represent less than half of the residence abroad that UK...
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Complacent, us?
Too many in education prefer the status quo to thinking about solutions, writes former Tory minister George Walden Writing your memoirs reminds you to count your educational blessings. Mine was a...
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Why I...believe the Welsh Assembly should not compel students to be taught in Welsh
For centuries, the Welsh were trapped by their obscure Celticlanguage in which little of importance was written. When they switched to English they entered the mainstream of European science and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...Cary Cooper argued that bullying is on the increase in universities I am a professor in a grade five department at a leading research university, one of only nine female...
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Government supports body for vocations
The government has offered to support the creation of an Association of Profession Verifiers to encourage high standards in vocational qualifications.