Early CSR intensifies lobbying
Campaigning for extra money for the long-term future of higher education and research has intensified after a decision to advance the start of the next comprehensive spending review. Funding and...
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Unis set for cash crunch
Universities are bracing themselves for a stream of students needing emergency cash because their student loan cheques are not ready for collection, writes Alison Goddard. Education secretary David...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...... Penelope Corfield argued that women's history should become part of a wider gender history June Purvis. Professor of women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth...
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Degrees of treachery
British universities still have to safeguard against spying, argues Christopher Andrew Three years ago a colleague at another university who had carried out historical research in the misnamed German...
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Studies suffer in poverty trap
Allowing students to claim housing benefit once more will help tackle poverty, argues Andrew Pakes The cost of housing affects every student. Even the so-called "me generation" has to pay rent....
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The hard way: two young students who did not follow the
'Some of the other students looked down on me for having a BTEC rather than A A levels' Calling up the admissions tutor and demanding a place on his course might seem an unusual way of getting into...
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Trendspotting: how the profile of higher education is
These charts and tables give the most comprehensive picture available of Britain's higher education system and its development over almost two decades. Compiling information is fraught with problems...
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Golden oldies
(Photograph) - Golden oldies: a student enrols at Goldsmiths College, University of London, for its PACE (professional and community education courses), which offer flexible education and training...
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Hunter gatherers
(Photograph) - Hunter gatherers: Hannah Northam and Miranda Wakeman from Stafford College of Art unveil their sculpture, Artemis of Versailles at Sandon Hall, Staffordshire to replace an original...
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Teaching the teachers
HEAD TO HEAD: standards debate The accreditation of lecturers is designed to improve learning in universities. Will it work? YES Caroline Bucklow Most people I know who teach in universities and...
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When a smile is a bad sign...
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE We must look not only internally but also at a cultural level to try to define a universal human nature. Steve Farrar reports The...
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Part-timers' lament
Hourly paid staff will soon have the right to claim their treatment is unfair. Amanda Hart urges lecturers to use the law "After 19 years' part-time service I am still not allowed to have a desk of...
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Warwick gives up advisory role
A round-up of the issues facing the CVCP at its meeting in Telford this week. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, has stood down from a funding council...
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Bid to reduce bureaucratic burden
Blueprint The proposed new quality framework, currently subject to tense debate, is primarily designed to reduce the bureaucratic burden on institutions. There is a greater emphasis on universities'...
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Bett panel allays national pay fears
Members of the Bett committee on academic pay have attempted to allay concerns that the introduction of a national pay scale would reduce institutional flexibility. Workshops were full to overflowing...