A burden for youth
It seems important to remind Andrew Oswald ("Face fees or failure", Soapbox, THES, May 26) that most Americans do not attend private universities, such as Dartmouth or Harvard, but large state-run,...
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Watch this space
"Space boost for Kent University" would have been more accurate ("Kent university lost in space", THES, May 26). We have "lost" half a team to the Open University but will shortly replace them with...
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Watch those stats
Natfhe claims that women in their late 20s at City University are paid 16 per cent less than men of that age ("Sexism and ageism blight careers of female academics, says Natfhe", THES, May 26). The...
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Silence of illiteracy
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...
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Bodies of learning
In successive editions of the Letters and Opinion columns of The THES we have had references to "academics working their balls off","the substantial proportion of academics who are "working their...
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Crowning point
I would like to make clear beyond any doubt that Queen's University, Belfast, is not supplanting its coat of arms with a new logo. The logo is additional to the coat of arms, which includes the crown...
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Curiosity doesn't pay
The antiquity of the problems academics face in raising money for their research, particularly if it is "curiosity-driven research" ("Labour policy poses threat to freedom", THES, March 26) is...
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Web can capture true RAE story
One of the rules of the game ("To win the global game, providers must pay to play", THES, May 26) should be transparency. We would all benefit if your "spirit of openness" was achieved in the...
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Web can capture true RAE story
I think this RAE thing should stay as it is ("That's one for me, 14 for you", Soapbox, THES, May 26), mainly because the forthcoming round is driving my lecturers crazy. I know one who keeps talking...
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Lessons to be learned
Which was the 'absolute scandal' last week - Oxford's rejection of Laura Spence or Gordon Brown telling universities whom to select? Barry Sheerman and Colin Lucas (No Compromise on Standards)...
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No compromise on standards
Which was the 'absolute scandal' last week - Oxford's rejection of Laura Spence or Gordon Brown telling universities whom to select? Barry Sheerman (Lessons to be Learned) and Colin Lucas discuss the...
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Why I...believe the government is right to turn the spotlight on Oxford
Labour MP for Croydon Central and a member of the House of Commons public accounts committee. As the only pupil from my comprehensive to be made an offer to Oxford University in 1979, I approached...
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Seoul
Hundreds of leftist students demanded an end to the United States military presence in South Korea and called for a government condemnation of the bombing by a US jet fighter on a range near a...
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Cambridge opens Turkish talks
Cambridge University has entered into talks with Turkey's higher education authority to co-operate on internet tuition. Anil Seale, of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, has been in discussions with...
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Increase in black applicants
The number of black applicants for full-time higher education courses has increased by 3.3 per cent on last year, while the number of Asian applicants has increased by 2.6 per cent, according to the...