Pilot confirms change needed
It is now more than nine months since Baroness Blackstone formally launched the joint University of Sunderland and Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) pilot of the University for Industry. At...
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Does your institution do anything underhand for its RAE scores?
RAE abuse alleged Does your institution do anything underhand for its RAE scores? Any examples welcome. Please contact Phil Baty on 0171 782 3298 or email him on pbaty@thes.co.uk
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Value added by league tables
FEW people in British universities are comfortable with league tables published by newspapers. As they proliferate, anxiety has sharpened over the newspapers' role in compiling such guides and their...
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...but we do need clinical academics
Alan Maynard (below) and Michael Rees (right) suggest cures for two ills of the NHS on its 50th birthday The report commissioned by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals from Sir Rex...
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We don't need more doctors...
Alan Maynard (below) and Michael Rees (right) suggest cures for two ills of the NHS on its 50th birthday Forecasting the National Health Service workforce is rather like peering into an opaque...
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Who is affected and how
THES reporters look at the spread of casualisation and its effects and the campaign against it Who are casual staff? At the heart of the unions' campaign are people employed on fixed-term contracts...
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Bird's eye view
(Photograph) - A helicopter pilot checks a map of the Solent to ensure that researchers from Southampton Institute maritime leisure management department can video boats in a survey last month to see...
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Safety 'hit by cash pressures'
Unison claims employee health and welfare increasingly at risk as resources are squeezed THE health and safety of higher education employees is a low priority in universities, Britain's biggest union...
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Face-to-face admission
UCAS applicants who list hobbies and pastimes are often revealing little more than their privileged upbringing and not how capable they are of taking responsibility ("Is an interview really necessary...
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NVQs need a debate
THE government is not paying the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Pounds 5 million a year to draft occupational standards with industry (THES, June 19). Updating national occupational...
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Face-to-face admission
YOU report Nick Tate, QCA chief executive, as asserting that "... we have these standards (for NVQs) and there is no reason why they should not be used to build other qualifications as well". There...
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The eighties' rise of the good degree
YOUR story on grade inflation gives a misleading impression by failing to place university degree results in a wider context ("Dumbing down disproved", THES, June 26). Although the award pattern has...
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The eighties' rise of the good degree
SO THE Confederation of British Industry believes employers would be "worried and confused" if degree classifications were replaced by something more informative. It is scarcely reassuring that the...
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Sporting chances
YOUR editorial (THES, June 5) said that "the access challenge facing further and higher education in Britain is that of attracting young white men from lower socio-economic groups". You asked "Could...
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Too green for comfort
I WAS unaware that the government-supported "greening" of universities was well in hand (THES, June 12). Is it likely to lead to a further assault on academic freedom? I am a life scientist. In...