Readers pick science stories
TWICE as many Australians would prefer to read about science than sport or politics, according to a new survey, writes Geoff Maslen. But while the batting performance of Mark Taylor and the racist...
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Malaysia's intake beats past record
THIS year's intake of students to Malaysian universities reached 47,733, the highest level ever and an increase of 40 per cent over last year, according to education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun...
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When a quiver has little to do with a pen
A MONTREAL psychology student's research may make the earth move for some people - but not in the field of geology. By developing a questionnaire which gathers adjectives that describe orgasm,...
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Need for standards cannot be ignored
Consumers, customers, stakeholders. Whatever word is used - and they are all pretty unattractive to the providers of higher education - power is moving their way. Now that a third of the population...
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Empire's heir in need of a new image
LAST June an independent international survey of Commonwealth studies found that awareness and understanding of the Commonwealth was "truly appalling". Despite the designation of 1997 as the UK Year...
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Beware the 'Ivy League'
Robert May warns against the sloppy thinking which confuses famous names with research capabilities In the sometimes fraught discussion of the United Kingdom's greatly expanded tertiary education...
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Can we handle more of the working class?
Graham Peeke examines the likely consequences of expanding student opportunities in further education A recent report suggested that more working-class students could be attracted to higher education...
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Equality at stake
The outgoing chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association made a despairing and feeble attempt to justify his plans to impose an inappropriate job evaluation system on...
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Equality at stake
Lecturers and other academic staff in universities and colleges of higher education will have read Stephen Rouse's letter with at least a degree of cynicism if not anger. The major salary anomalies...
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Learning wisdom
It was a pleasure to read Gerald Vinten's article "Curbs needed on rule of fear" (THES, June 13) with its positive reference to South-ampton Institute. Here we are indeed discussing ethical codes and...
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The art of appraisal
Anthony Everitt's discourse on the iniquities of the research assessment exercise's appraisal of creative artistic work (THES, June 20) is wide of the mark and out of date. Higher Education Funding...
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Let us wait for Dearing
You reported (THES, June 20) that at least ten vice chancellors were opposing the introduction of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's new method for distributing money to universities...
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Squaring the circle of support
You say (THES, June 20) that David Blunkett is getting tetchy because of the failure to find a way of shifting student support off the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement. I am not surprised. The...
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Welcome criticism
The Teacher Training Agency's work over the past two years has been high profile and challenging. One of the things that the pamphlet by Pat Mahoney and Ian Hextall (THES, June 20) ignores is the...
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Eastern premise
I turned with interest to your analysis of higher education provision in the east of the United Kingdom (THES, June 13). Imagine my disappointment to discover the incomplete picture of what is...