Anything more than minimal external reviews will harm the quality they are meant to ensure, Alec Broers argues The first students to pay tuition fees have completed their first term. These fees will...
Your diary (THES, January 15) suggests that I might have a view about a candidate in our executive election. As returning officer, I do not. In my former post in Natfhe, I took no part in...
Higher Education Role Analysis is claimed to be "hated by the AUT, disliked by Natfhe, but supported by other unions" ("Is Bett about to pay dividends?", THES, January 22). This is inaccurate. MSF is...
The institutional setting of architectural education is barely hinted at in Sir Colin Stansfield Smith's draft report, nor in Kam Patel's otherwise useful report ("Architects fear course renovation...
You quote a Higher Education Funding Council for England official as saying that "a change from a five-year to a three-year undergraduate programme plus a two-year postgraduate programme would not...
The statement from HEFCE illustrates the protectionism that has so dominated architectural education in the past two decades; even the RIBA response was immediately protectionist. It may be necessary...
What is needed is staff who can produce more and better research and heads of schools of architecture who value research and have sufficient knowledge of it to be able to manage their resources....
Q Some of my engineering students have a rather elementary grasp of maths. What is the best way of helping them? A Janet Duffin Maths lecturer and head of numeracy project Hull University Much of the...
Members of college governing bodies are rightly exhorted to recognise boundaries between governance and management and not to interfere in tasks allocated to the college principal. It is hard, in a...
In Sir Timothy Garden's review of Hiroshima's Shadow ("Atomic truths exploded", THES, January 8), no reference was made to the number of casualties of the A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki. An estimated 40,...
A principle of car mechanics is, when the vehicle is not running perfectly, start by adjusting the engine rather than by dismantling the car. This principle should apply equally to policy-making. The...
Neurological tests provide evidence that Freud's theory of dreams may have been right, says Mark Solms It is not very fashionable now to believe in Freudian theories about how the mind works....
Jane Mulkerrans edits the Cambridge student magazine Varsity and is a second-year student in social and political sciences at New Hall, one of Cambridge's three single-sex colleges Women's colleges...
Michelangelo's sculptures are being scanned to make a near perfect archive, Paul Bompard reports A team of scientists from Stanford University began work on Tuesday in Florence on an ambitious laser-...
The world's first internet-based patent auction market was launched this week to bring together the owners of patents - including universities - and companies looking to commercialise research. Nir...