Assessment reassessed
As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
According to the leaked external audit, "The payment of fees to members of administration staff is unusual" (THES, February 21). An interesting choice of words, which raises a simple question: Why is...
The chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency's claims (THES, February 21) that "initial teacher training is not an academic study, and therefore, an intrinsic part of higher education". When...
THE COUNCIL for College and University English has not "condemned" the research assessment exercise's English panel's approach to grading, nor has it "backed" Professor Everest's open letter to...
The picture of the Royal Naval College Greenwich made a handsome impression (THES, February 14), but to write in the caption of its "acquisition" by the University of Greenwich is misleading. The...
I have followed with great interest your detailed coverage of the current debate in Britain about introducing fees for university students ("Market forces and the charge of the fees brigade" THES,...
It is part of popular mythology that university teachers lead cushy lives. Their working days in pleasing quadrangles are short and stimulating. Their holidays and High Table dinners are long and...
Week one Have spent the end of last term and the Christmas holidays writing reports, notes, lesson plans, work schedules, mock exam papers - and I am exhausted. The groves of academe have signalled...
For two decades, the student assistance system was as straightforward as social programmes get in Canada. There was a national system of student loans, the Canada Student Loan Plan (CSLP), from which...
HIGH-FLYING universities have been plundered to pay for the less successful in a funding round aimed at fending off cash crises in individual institutions. But the 1997/98 allocations announced...
FUNDING chiefs are seeking greater control of university building projects. Cuts in capital grant and the end of the first phase ofa backlog maintenance programme has sharply reduced the amount of...
An Internet service is selling fake degree certificates for Pounds 70 each. From his website Peter Quinn offers those "who have never had a chance at a university or college education" a choice of A-...
In previous years, the council established funding thresholds so that no institution suffered cash reductions of more than a certain amount - 4.5 per cent in cash terms last year. This year, help has...
This is the first year the council has made no separate calculation for capital funding. This is therefore included in the total Pounds 3,405 million recurrent grant. The total is a 2.8 per cent...
THE FURTHER Education Funding Council has dropped attempts to cap student recruitment in the face of legal threats from colleges and a Government climbdown. FEFC chief executive David Melville wrote...