Memo to Labour: don't blow it
Dear Secretary of State, The THES joins the raft of contributors on the following pages in welcoming you and your deservedly successful party to office. Your stunning victory promises a fairer deal...
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RAE needs changing, but not replacing
THE RESEARCH Assessment Exercise announcements on grading and funding seem to have been followed by a certain tristesse which, combined with the angst of waiting for the Dearing report, has led to...
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Sussex success
I WOULD like to correct the impression given by the article "Quango kills off LSU" (THES, April 25) that Sussex University is also at risk of withdrawal of teacher training accreditation. Following a...
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Practical teachers
JANET FRASER deserves strong support for her demand that "practitioner research" is properly recognised in the research assessment exercise in 2000 (THES letters, April 25). Her demand is...
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Merger merits
I AM AFRAID that Frank Gould ("Think big and move for more mergers", THES, May 2), has fallen into the usual trap of assuming that there are always economies from institutional mergers. All recent...
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Dearing standard
THE CONCERN over the rumours of Dearing favouring a national training standard for university lecturers (THES, May 2) is understandable. If we are to take a student-centred rather than an...
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Dangerous skills perspective
THE UNPROVOKED attack by Terry Hyland on the concept of transferable skills (THES, May 2) exemplifies academic isolationism at its worst. Hyland appears to dismiss such skills from having any role...
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Media opportunity
The National Council for Educational Technology will again select the UK entries to the European Community Multimedia awards. The competition aims to encourage the creation of innovative educational...
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Dangerous skills perspective
TERRY HYLAND's attack is based around a variety of misconceptions, but I will respond to his main criticisms: the lack of any common definition of these skills and their lack of transferability. On...
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Don's Diary
Monday Three days to polling and the weather forecast predicts sunshine on Thursday. This should encourage a high turnout. The student voters in Edgbaston are mainly first-years in halls of residence...
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Blair's low-cost path out of the dark ages
DEAR MR BLAIR, Congratulations! The education service, and I guess most of those who lead our public services, looks to you to deliver us out of the dark ages and into the light of the new millennium...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers FUNDING FUNDING, fees and student loans will be top of David Blunkett's higher education action list, writes...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers FUNDING * VAT payment is the single biggest constraint on the take-up of the Private Finance Initiative in...
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers UNIONS AT HIS first press briefing last week David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Employment,...
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Universities sue UK supplier
THE largest consortium of Australian universities is counter-suing a British-owned computer software supplier, CHA Computer Solutions Pty Ltd, for alleged late delivery and alleged shortcomings in an...