Paying parents take up fight for better teaching
Teaching and research are likely to come increasingly into conflict in British universities, at least in those with a heavy concentration of research. Students and their parents are now paying...
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Roots and branches
"Ancient English selfhood" and "perpetual rootedness" - are these serious criteria for 20th-century poetry? Valentine Cunningham's advocacy of Ted Hughes over Sylvia Plath (THES, November ) resorts...
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A new dimension
Digital art is widespread in a variety of art and design disciplines, particularly in the United Kingdom's university sector - witness the growing number of courses that now include digital imaging...
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The wrong question?
In claiming that students do not use computers for course-related material John Davies (THES, November ) takes an exceedingly narrow view. Most university libraries offer on CD-rom or via the web the...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Dross, second-rate, gobbledegook, hot, hot, hot! New assessment categories, perhaps, for educational research (THES, November )? In Phil Baty's feature one of my recent papers was described as "small...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Where is the recognition that in terms of school improvement, cognitive acceleration in science education, mathematical education, formative assessment, school action research, and gender awareness,...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Your coverage of the debate surrounding educational research draws heavily on James Tooley's research, yet his work contains a number of contradictions. For example, his negative reference to one of...
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Boxing with God
I am glad that some of your respondents (THES, letters, November ) realised that I may not have been entirely serious in suggesting that genetic engineering could be used to abolish religious belief...
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Oxford values
My 18-year-old daughter, intelligent and interested, recently started studying at Oxford University. Imagine the blow to her enthusiasm when there was no mark or comment on her weekly essays at the...
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Gaitskell's girl
In my piece about Arnold Goodman (THES, November 20), a number of sentences were conflated in an unfortunate way to imply that Hugh Gaitskell's daughter told me unprovable and sensitive things about...
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Why I ...
Howard Jeffrey Director of the mentor programme at City and Islington College, London At City and Islington College we run a mentor programme for students of African, Asian and Caribbean origin, and...
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Help the workers
As the THES/MORI poll reveals the extent of student work, Tom Wilson calls for more advice Most students are now doing paid work in term-time. The proportion is rising steadily and so is the amount...
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Perestroika without glasnost
University restructuring has been accompanied by a crackdown on free speech, says Suzi Clark Have you been "restructured" yet? There has been an epidemic of restructuring in campuses around the...
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French row over race poll
A row has erupted in France over the 1999 national census plans to include a sample survey on the ethnic origin of respondents. The National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute, which organises...
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Laser attack
A lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology could have sustained permanent eye damage after a student used a laser pointer during a lecture. The university said...