Russia's private sadness
Nick Holdsworth's article on private colleges in Russia (THES, October 20) is in some respects misleading. The private sector of higher education in that sad land does not comprise about a third of...
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Geography loses its way for one assessor
As someone who has been involved with the recent teaching quality assessment exercise in geography, both as an assessor and as a member of an assessed department, I have extremely serious misgivings...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I had been told that the Chinese do not queue but there was a very long and orderly queue for the taxis when I arrived outside the airport in Beijing. Today, only taxis with odd number-plates...
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Portsmouth: points from QC's report
I wish it to be known that the decision by the University of Portsmouth not to permit general publication of the full report by Jeremy Lever QC on certain matters affecting the university was not...
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We deserve prize of pay review body body
How sad to see a spokesperson for our sister union, Natfhe, line up with the chief executive of the UCEA in seeking to deny professional staff in higher education the benefits of an independent and...
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Food for thought on genetics
I would like to clarify remarks attributed to me about decision-making over genetically engineered foods (THES, October ). While I appreciate the points made in your leader about the case for a new...
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Hats off to Luton
You report (THES, November 3, 1995) that not a single institution has received a grade 4 for the quality assurance and enhancement aspect of provision under the new HEFCE procedures. The University...
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Built-in rewards
May I provide additional information to your article (THES, October ) which stated "a new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of disruption caused by...
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Marginal benefit
Margins matter. Any economist could have told you so years ago, but now the entire academic community is learning that reality as a consequence of the research assessment process. The RAE, which...
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Killer's campus cancels classes
Classes were cancelled this week at Israel's Bar Ilan University, the university attended by the student who shot prime minister Itzhak Rabin this week. Speaking shortly after the assassination, the...
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Hard work for students
My immediate reaction to Gordon Conway's comment in Don's Diary (THES, October ) that "employment of up to 15 hours a week ought not seriously to interfere with (undergraduates') studies" was that...
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Open savings, hidden costs
It will not be too long before every senior common room echoes to the jargon of the private finance initiative. BOOT for build-own-operate-transfer, DBFO for design-build-finance-operate, FM for...
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Smoother learning par for the course
Throughout higher education there has been a tide of development that favours the module as the basic unit of student learning rather than the more traditional course. Among the perceived benefits of...
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Strike over fee proposals
Following several weeks of rumours and the failure of last minute negotiations with officials from the ministry of education, the Israeli student union staged a one-day strike at all universities and...
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Gaza's eye on future
Paul Jeffrey assesses the mood in Gaza, where Al-Azhar University looks forward to peace, and in shocked Jerusalem Gaza's two higher education institutes, the Islamic University and Al-Azhar...