Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...MP Edward Davey opposed dropping the Anglo-Saxons from the A-level history syllabus. By Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of early medieval European history and professor-elect...
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Hardship loans get rethink
The government is reviewing hardship loans and access funds following concerns that the system does not meet the needs of mature students. It has set up a team of civil servants and academics to...
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Research top of political agenda
PM Howard puts knowledge economy centre stage in green paper. University research and research training are issues flying high on Australia's political agenda. More than a decade after the last...
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Quids in or just out of pocket?
As the first students to pay fees end their first year, do they feel they are getting value for money? Alan Thomson reports If higher education courses have become commodities, then undergraduates...
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Sources of research funding
This week this section lists funds available for Australian research collaboration. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT...
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Fee debtors to be kicked out
Thousands of students owing millions of pounds in unpaid tuition fees could face expulsion this autumn, The THES has learned. At least one university is owed more than Pounds 1 million, while others...
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Research funds not for industry
The outcomes from the research assessment exercise are used by the funding councils to allocate a limited amount of money in a selective way. Over the years there has been a growing lobby that wants...
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Top tips for study skills
Very little account has been taken of the widespread change to semesterisation in higher education. When I was a mature first-year undergraduate, I attended a study-skills seminar early in my course...
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Failure? I think we'll pass
The tips on helping students who fail exams (Teaching, THES, July 9) coincided nicely with the ritual posting of pass lists, a widespread denial mechanism against the reality of failure. The advice...
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No Rum cover-up
John Raven's evidence that several of the rare plants discovered by John Heslop Harrison on Rum had been deliberately planted was not hushed up ("Trowels and tribulations", THES, July 9 ). It was...
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No Rum cover-up
I read with sadness about John Heslop Harrison. I was living on Rum in the early 1940s when he visited the island. Discovering my interest in natural history, although I was only five or so, he...
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Councils' responsibilities
It is not the case that the higher education funding councils "have a statutory responsibility to safeguard standards in higher education" ("Councils near deal", THES, July 23). The funding councils...
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LJMU defends itself
I was appalled by your attack on Liverpool John Moores University and its vice-chancellor ("Top dogs pass on pain of job cuts", THES, July 23), particularly as it appeared during our degree ceremony...
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Beach bummer
While the sun may shine, Australian academics are now also expected to be full-time entrepreneurs drawing in funding to underwrite research and salaries from private industry. There is little time...
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Getting close to nature
It is correct to highlight the advances in self-organisation in organic molecular science, so-called supramolecular science (Cutting edge, THES, July 16). But even greater advances will have to be...