Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
It costs the United Kingdom about Pounds 90 million a year to belong to the European Space Agency and to Cern, the European particle physics laboratory. The exact cost is uncertain because it depends...
Last Friday morning, a Business and Technology Education Council quality audit team called on a further education college -- a normal institution in which thousands of students follow courses and...
I have read John Rear's well-crafted apology for the new university managements (THES, October 21). It is a fine piece of rhetoric. I also attended Friday's meeting of the Council for Academic...
Thank you for your leader "University Democracy" (THES, October 21), referring to the colloquium held that day by the Council for Academic Autonomy. The purpose of the council is to ensure that there...
Recent events at the University of Huddersfield prompt questions about the independence of the National Audit Office, which earlier this week presented its interim report on the Huddersfield affair...
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...
My collection of essays and journalism, Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics, seems to have upset the Tory ex-MP Sir Robert Rhodes James badly (THES, October 15...
Pamela King and Angela Barrs write (THES, October 14) that "An undergraduate course ought to inculcate a habit of independent critical reading". I could not agree more, but my heart sank on reading...
This year the 16th congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Berlin. The congresses take place every three years with about 2,000 participants from every part of the...
Controversy over the existence of a canon of great works has long divided the world of literature, yet a similar if less public dispute bisects the world of art. In an attempt to open up this debate...
The science of human genetics appears to be taking a "social" turn, with the blessings of Britain's biggest backers of biomedical research. The Medical Research Council has begun to fund studies into...
The Office of Science and Technology this week dropped its proposal to make a one-year masters' course the first step to postgraduate research training for most students. The proposal was made in...
Desmond Tutu, the archbishop of Cape Town, this week called on universities in the developed world to continue to offer free places for South African students . In London to receive an honorary...
The Scots language should be given a statutory legal basis to conserve and promote Scotland's heritage, according to Magnus Fladmark, director of the Robert Gordon University Heritage Unit. Professor...