Careers survey founded on wrong criteria
The results of the UK Graduate Careers Survey 1995 compiled by High Fliers' Research recruitment consultants (THES, May 19) were not very impressive. First, there is no indication as to why the...
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New university plan lives
Last week's news of the change of the academic partner for the University of Lincolnshire Project brings a guarantee of success. Under the previous model, with Nottingham Trent University, the...
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New university plan lives
Contrary to the assertion in Alison Utley's article on the front page last week (THES, May 26) plans for an independent University of Lincolnshire have not been scrapped. They have been given a new...
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Rules of game lead to strikes
By discussing the dispute between college lecturers and their employers as a kind of poker game played by Natfhe and the Colleges Employers Forum, your leading article (THES, May 26) misses the...
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Teachers and petting do mix
Moves to 'protect' students from sexual relationships with their tutors are patronising and unnecessary, warns Jennie Bristow. The idea that relationships between lecturers and students are a problem...
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More money must be found
Expansion without more funding must stop now, says Ann Cotterrell. Quality is suffering through lack of funding. Lecturers are trying to maintain quality in the face of diminishing resources. It is...
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Militant march
The hard left are no doubt celebrating this weekend. As they see it they have won two famous victories, one in respect of strike ballots in further education, the other in respect of students' grants...
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A Romanian renaissance
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
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Germany lacks competitive edge
Germany's foreign secretary Klaus Kinkel has called for a fundamental adjustment of the country's higher education system, and wants industry and the federal and state governments to set up a joint...
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Juppe sidesteps grants pledge
France's new prime minister, Alain Juppe, has outlined plans to implement two of Jacques Chirac's electoral pledges on education to Parliament, but made no mention of his third major promise: to give...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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Time to stop selling ourselves cheap
One does not have to be a Marxist to appreciate that one of the main marks of social valuation is money. For too long British academics have allowed themselves to be undervalued by undercharging for...
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Belarus suffers identity crisis
Belarus's national identity has suffered a severe blow just as the second congress of the International Association of Belarusicists celebrate independence. A national referendum engineered by...
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Affirmative action under pressure
American colleges and universities are unclear about their authority to give black-only scholarships following the Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a case involving the University of...
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Canberra lambasted
University students in Australia have condemned the federal government for tightening access to both the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and Austudy, the student support programme. Concerned by...