Taming of the screw
Is this the last straw? Again and again since 1981 the funding screw has been tightened on universities. In the past five years alone the amount of money for each student has gone down by 25 per cent...
Is this the last straw? Again and again since 1981 the funding screw has been tightened on universities. In the past five years alone the amount of money for each student has gone down by 25 per cent...
The delegates, almost all female, at last week's British Association meeting on careers for women in science, technology and engineering were both impressive and depressing. Impressive because of the...
The remarkable regularity with which France's universities erupt suggests student protest movements bear a striking similarity. But this time, it is different. Since 1986, student unrest has sunk one...
I enjoyed David Cannadine's article on new perspectives in British history teaching (THES, November 24) but I was surprised to see him repeat the myth that this country is a "multi-racial society"....
The potential imposition of a national curriculum for higher education (THES, November 17) through GNVQs at level 4 is being promoted with a worrying lack of debate. On a technical basis alone, GNVQs...
My article on a national curriculum was missing the final sentence from the submitted manuscript. That sentence read: "We do, however, need urgently to establish a national forum drawing in all...
You report Graeme Davies, until lately chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as saying that he interprets "the relative silence of the academic community over the...
Graeme Davies is disingenuous in interpreting "the relative silence of the academic community over the current funding model as assent". Those of us who have suffered most from a system designed to...
Scientific research is in danger because neo-liberals have espoused central planning. In a recent article, Simon Jenkins (THES, October 10) highlighted one of the most puzzling aspects of British...
So, Mr Simmonds (Letters, THES, November 24) is concerned that Bishop Burton College, a further education college, is to have a chair endowed by commercial sponsorship. He worries that this practice...
I was surprised at the letter headed "Amazing dancing profs". Surely the writer and subeditor know that Christopher Bannerman has the chair in dance at Middlesex University, and is internationally...
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...
Tim Cornwell discovers that sex is contributing to the demise of an American academic institution. John Rawls's Theory of Justice began life as a monograph; so did Benedict Anderson's "imagined...
Nancy Folbre argues that women are not yet powerful enough to persuade men to share the costs of child-care. Gender is now an indispensable word in the economic development vocabulary. Most...
David Walker talks to the enduring music critic and professor Simon Frith. A funny thing happened on the way to the Mercury Music Awards this year. Pop music became front-page news in a way it had...