Common health games
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
It cannot have escaped anybody's attention that students are becoming both relatively and absolutely impoverished. First grants were frozen, and then they were cut, leaving most with too little for...
Monday. First day as London regional official for the Association of University Teachers: new job, new home, new city. As you would expect, I feel totally at ease with this situation. There is a...
I note that your issue of August 18 carries considerable coverage of the A level results. How are we supposed to evaluate this if we do not know how many A levels Blur and Oasis have got? TOM M....
I was fascinated to read of the "Fears over flood of racism cases" (THES, August 11). The fear might at least serve as a discipline over those institutions or departments with an overbearing attitude...
The fact that the United States Congress voted for arming the Bosnian Muslim government should make "leftists" like Bob Lentell (THES, August 18) think that maybe Bosnia is not such a good cause. We...
Ray Cowell argues that seminal developments in recent years amount to re-inventing the role of institutions. The international debate on the future of higher education ranges over a perplexing number...
Simon Jenkins's flawed argument in favour of the continued survival of newspapers in the face of competition from the Internet (THES, August 11) shows the dangers in attempting to understand the...
I know that it is pointless to suggest to ideologues like David Marsland (THES, August 4) that calls for the re-application of right-wing policies - "smaller government, less taxes . . . et al" -...
University is no longer the easy life it once was, says Jonathan Whitehead. A year in between would help. The suffering associated with the university admissions system as it stands extends beyond...
Tony Rice sees dumping waste, like the Brent Spar, in the deep oceans as part of the solution to the survival equation (THES, August 11). Greenpeace, he says, is irresponsible in opposing the use of...
There is ample evidence to suggest that physics as a scientific discipline has been in relative decline for several years. Although a problem not only in the United Kingdom - similar trends are...
Gordon F. Sander reports on a Social Democrat's attempt to innovate while turning back the tide of market reform. A year after replacing a Conservative government which extensively decentralised...
Mr Tham has also drawn criticism by effectively undermining the privatisation of one higher education institution by preventing it from buying the deeds to its land. The government's thwarting of the...
South Africa's Committee of University Principals is to establish a quality promotion unit along the lines of Britain's Higher Education Quality Council to monitor and advise on academic standards....