Let's teach teaching
It is surely astonishing that Lewis Elton (The THES, June 26) regards innovation by trial and error (i.e. "innovations (that) need refining over time") as the route to excellence in teaching, when it...
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Mergers and waste
I was surprised to read in your leader on mergers that the Further Education Funding Council's decision to reject the proposed Hertfordshire University-Dunstable College merger might have been on "...
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Assessing degrees
I am afraid that Bruce Macfarlane's explanation of the rise of the good degree in the 1980s (Letters, THES, July 3), that it could be due to students working harder, is just one of several extremely...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
One of my teenage daughters pointed out to me a logical flaw in your universities' league table of proportions of female professors (The THES, July 3). For each university, you should have divided...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
The article on women professors in our universities made depressing reading. Furthermore, the figures you provided for Portsmouth are inaccurate. At Portsmouth we do not have five female professors...
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King's acts with justice
My attention has just been drawn to a report in The THES ("Don't shut out police, report says", June 12) in which Phil Baty claims that, at King's College, London in 1994, "an internal inquiry that...
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Export quality
Their Lordships are quite right ("Lead way to Europe, peers tell v-cs", The THES, July 3): studying abroad is deeply educational in the full sense of the term. Thus it is right to encourage British...
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War studies beachhead
Re: Poppleton's Serbian War Studies. Please let potential course participants know (Laurie Taylor, THES, June 26) that they can enrol for the diploma in languages for military purposes (Serbian). We...
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Career prospects need unblocking
If you are on the staff of a university, how good are your career prospects? According to the Dearing report, they are pretty healthy. The number of senior academic jobs is on the increase. Career...
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Promotions
University of Durham Senior lecturers have been promoted to readerships to pursue their research interests as follows: Ian Bailiff, archaeology, environmental radiation dosimentry and Chernobyl;...
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Satellite project brings Pacific learners closer together
The University of the South Pacific, owned and operated by 12 Pacific island countries over an area of ocean four times the size of Europe, has long faced the problems of operating with two different...
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Managers reclaim the sites
Two groups of activists have been told to remove their websites from a University of Westminster server, after vice-chancellor Geoffrey Copland saw a newspaper report that one of the sites had...
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Why size isn't everything
The government has sanctioned one anomaly in its refusal to fund a fourth year at Scottish universities for non-Scottish students. But, asks Olga Wojtas, how different is higher education north of...
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'Pampered Jocks' reject unfair label
The government has sanctioned one anomaly in its refusal to fund a fourth year at Scottish universities for non-Scottish students. But, asks Olga Wojtas, how different is higher education north of...
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Academics hope devolution will not end in disillusion
The government has sanctioned one anomaly in its refusal to fund a fourth year at Scottish universities for non-Scottish students. But, asks Olga Wojtas, how different is higher education north of...