Pay review body is vital
I AGREE with John Ashworth (THES, September 19) that the primary task of the Dearing report was to address university funding, and that the Government must be pressed to rise to Dearing's challenge...
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No mobility, no jobs
I WAS surprised to learn that the pro vice chancellor of Middlesex University considers that a university has no control over the employment prospects of its graduates (THES, September 19). He will...
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No mobility, no jobs
GEOFFREY Alderman (THES, September 19) provides a neat overview of what is wrong with the league tables employed by the press in his argument for a more rational, transparent and credible system of...
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Confirming prejudices
ANYONE who read Fergus Millar (THES, September 12) should consider the news item on page four ("Research inquiry sparks row"). The head of a quango handpicked by a former minister has invited the...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
ASI understand it, postmodernist ideas make a positive contribution to intellectual life not only for all the reasons tucked away in the final paragraph of Richard Evans's caricature of the subject (...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
WHILE Richard Evans rightly criticises some of the more idiotic pronouncements of the new hyper-relativism, he is surely being unduly belligerent and alarmist in his attitude to postmodernism. Many...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Having recently finished editing a book on child prostitution in Britain, I decided to look at the subject in Marseilles, a French city with a long history of turbulence, on the...
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Why some pleading is special
The issues confronting New Zealand universities continue to come at us thick and fast. We are not only facing an imminent "comprehensive review" - a condition that now seems obligatory for...
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Politics, principles and public relations
Why is everyone so disinclined to bite the bullet on funding further and higher education, and financing its students? Unfortunately, those to whom we might look for long-term solutions - most...
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Lecturers sceptical of training institute
Universities are to be asked to comment next week on options for a national scheme to train lecturers in the art of teaching. The Institute for Learning and Teaching proposed by Sir Ron Dearing to...
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Tighter teacher entry looms
The spectre of tougher minimum-entry requirements for all initial teacher training courses was raised this week by the parliamentary education and employment committee. Taking evidence from the...
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Lib Dems decry Pounds 165m sector 'sop'
THE Liberal Democrats have accused the Government of a third higher education U-turn by offering a "welcome sop" to universities in the form of an extra Pounds 165 million next year. Education and...
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Quick Pounds 165m spin causes contortion
In its second U-turn on higher education policy since the general election, Britain's Labour government has again softened its line, this time finding Pounds 165 million to help out English...
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Bloody gnomes of Zurich
Blood Money
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Reason finds a trusty champion
The Last Word