Triple counting in research assessment
It is incumbent on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to state how it plans to remove the well-documented biases that arise from its choice of performance indicators for the forthcoming...
It is incumbent on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to state how it plans to remove the well-documented biases that arise from its choice of performance indicators for the forthcoming...
The profession may not like them but the public does. Parents and potential students are coming increasingly to rely on them. League tables are here to stay - and indeed officially sanctioned ones...
I am studying for four "hard" science A levels and was naturally alarmed by Simon Szreter's inference that my grades may be worth less than those of my peers taking "softer" subjects. I do agree that...
Simon Szreter makes a serious point about the probable effects of disparate marking schemes. One has to ask why there is often such resistance to resolving this anomaly, which comes up regularly for...
The Nolan committee is investigating standards in various publicly-funded bodies, including universities. One key issue being examined is the appointment and accountability of university governors....
Student action in France has escalated and spread to some of the Paris universities as education minister Francois Bayrou's attempt to tackle complaints about unfair allocation of teachers and...
Niamh Bhreathnach, the Irish education minister, is expected to back down on her plans to restructure university governing bodies following strong opposition from the older universities. A vote on...
The argument presented by Simon Szreter on A-level grades (THES, November 17) could hardly be more misconceived. Data collected by the ALIS survey, run by Carol Fitzgibbon, professor in the...
Haste born of financial desperation is not a good recipe for fundamental reform, warns Christopher Johnson. The student loan scheme announced in the Queen's Speech makes me despair. In 1989, as chief...
The Government crackdown on immigration will have serious effects on higher education, says Julian Gravatt. Press reports about the Queen's Speech said that there are two education Bills for 1995/96...
The Government is getting the student loans scheme wrong again. Incredible though it may seem, the advice of the few people who were asked has been ignored. The advice of the many who will be...
An international architectural award has been given to a Turkish university's tree planting initiative which has brought wilderness to the country's capital and transformed the climate in a heavily...
The bullets which pierced the body of 73-year-old Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin also punctured many national illusions of tolerance and cooperation between the mainstreams of secular and...
A Communist victory in next month's Russian general elections would not herald a return to ideological education in its universities and schools, party leader Gennady Andreivich Zyuganov has pledged...
Belarusian experts fear a top-level but unpublished directive may halt visits to the country's universities by overseas academics. Evidence of the ban came from a Roman Catholic priest who is...