Defining best terms in teaching
It is not the timing of semesters that is wrong (Letters, THES February 17), it is their very existence. Those familiar with teaching and learning in higher education know that it is conducive to...
It is not the timing of semesters that is wrong (Letters, THES February 17), it is their very existence. Those familiar with teaching and learning in higher education know that it is conducive to...
While I have no wish to extend the saga of Southampton University's Naughty Pictures beyond its natural life, there are two or three points made by Ms Ni Bhrolchain in last week's THES ("Why No Nudes...
Barely two months old, this year is already proving to be quite a year for governors. The past few weeks have seen four significant publications - two from the National Audit Office on financial...
Sunday. The heavy snow ten days ago broke dozens of branches off the trees, especially the poplars and ashes, so most of the day gets spent on amateur tree surgery. The bonfire has lasted two days so...
Students at an international business school in Spain are to be guinea pigs for an academic's theory that yoga and meditation make for better business decisions. Ashok Ranchhod, a principal lecturer...
One dead, at least 20 seriously injured, several beaten and an unspecified number of arrests made up the initial casualty list from the opening of the academic year at the outlawed University of...
The administrative director of Rome's La Sapienza University, Savino Strippoli, was sentenced last week to 22 months in prison for corruption in assigning building and maintenance contracts. A member...
Further to your article, "Results at the press of a button", by Olga Wojtas (THES, January ). I am writing to inform you that the University of Luton was, in fact, one of the first universities to...
Scott Wilson's lively review of Alan Sinfield's Cultural Politics - Queer Reading, in last week's THES raises a fundamental question about the role of the university. Wilson questions Sinfield's...
Peter Smith points to structural and ethical damage from the vocation vision. Within the construction professions most have heard of National Vocational Qualifications; few realise their implications...
There is an overwhelming temptation to judge the ability of all young people on the basis of "academic" skills. Your report in News in Brief (THES, February 10) reports that "vocational students were...
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
Clearly, the rot has gone very far: a female academic, Maire Ni Bhrolchain, objects to, and is instrumental in the removal of, paintings from a university "workplace" - ie a conference room - on the...
Higher education should take the new Department for Employment consultative paper, A Vision for Higher Level Vocational Qualifications seriously. This will not be easy. The much-postponed publication...
In last week's THES the Science Minister, David Hunt, referred to British scientists' "unrivalled contribution to scientific knowledge and understanding". We still have, he said, "world-class...