Howells has the cash
HELEN Jones (THES, December 5) is wrong to say that "students aged over 50 cannot apply for access funding". They can. The requirement to have taken out a loan first does not apply to them. As Jones...
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'Implicit contempt' for teachers
THE "big thinking" of Mary Lord, director of training and education of the Training and Enterprise Council, includes most of the usual hokum from those who claim to represent the views of business...
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'Implicit contempt' for teachers
I HAVE a job. I live in the real world. I work in a university. Suggestions that I or my colleagues employed in universities do not have a real job are insulting. Mary Lord is right to say that her "...
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A journey into fear
Stephen Court argues that the casualisation of academic labour represents a greater threat to academic freedom than the ending of tenure (THES, December 5). I agree, but would like to add that the...
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Don's Diary
Monday To the office to plan the week: teaching tomorrow. Or perhaps not. Banners announce a general meeting of all students to discuss a university-wide strike, Tuesday 2 pm. Tuesday 2.15 is when I...
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Guessing game of how many colleges
THE NEWS that the proposed triple merger to form Derbyshire Regional University has collapsed after approval was given by the Further Education Funding Council goes to show what fragile things...
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The icemen cometh
(Photograph) - Leeds University medical student Tom Agombar (front), Alex Phillips of Edinburgh University (left) and Portsmouth University's Tim Saunders spent 12 hours in the cold store at an...
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Fact file
* 23.3 per cent of postgraduates were domiciled overseas before entering higher education in the UK * 8.2 per cent of first degree students were domiciled overseas * 13.1 per cent of all full-time...
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Second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill due next Thursday
The second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill is due to take place in the House of Lords next Thursday. Many peers are expected to oppose certain parts of the bill.
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What the bill says
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Troubled response
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Kennedy hunt
No more luck for information seekers after Helena Kennedy's report on further education. Here the problem is that it costs too little - in fact, it is completely free. So bookshops do not stock it,...
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Sector Pounds 800m in red
NEW figures released today by vice chancellors reveal that universities face a shortfall of almost Pounds 800 million over the next two years. The figures coincide with a Higher Education Funding...
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Bill faces rough ride
THE government's new Teaching and Higher Education Bill was this week denounced as the most Draconian attack on university autonomy this century. Legal experts agree that the bill, published last...
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The collision of two worlds
It has been stormy and has gone on for centuries. Huw Richards charts the relationship between government and the universities. EVER since universities were first set up they have had to fight to...