How to shape HE: John Pratt highlights key issues for the new Government A Labour government is elected after years out of office; it faces the problem of accommodating vastly increased numbers of...
High-profile accusations of plagiarism may make good journalists' copy but retailing the allegations made by Richard Pipes against Orlando Figes ("Plagiarise . . . only be sure to call it research",...
Both the main article (by Andrew Robinson) and the inset (by Hannah Baldock) give undeserved publicity to aspersions cast on the work of Orlando Figes. His recent study of the Russian revolution...
Fred Inglis' criticises my reasons for voting Conservative (THES Letters, April 25). First, my little piece may have been frivolous, but it was not meant to be funny. The gist of my argument was that...
I write on behalf of Southampton Institute to express amazement that, in your editorial of May 2 you should draw parallels between the regrettable situation at La Sainte Union, Southampton, and the...
Here is a tale of two colleges in one city. One college is monitored by Nottingham Trent University and audited by the HEFCE (Southampton Institute) and the other is having its accreditation removed...
LSU was not treated unfairly or uniquely. The Teacher Training Agency's withdrawal of accreditation procedures are clear and simple - and open to public scrutiny. All the procedures were followed to...
Distinguished as Chelly Halsey's career has been, John Honey (THES, May 9) erroneously accords him the achievement of being Britain's first professor of sociology. The first established chair of...
May I correct Dorothy Thompson on one small but key point in her thoughtful review of my The Oueen: A Biography of Elizabeth II (THES, May 9)? She describes me as "the official biographer of the...
Politicians who base their election campaign on their claim to be trustworthy and then surf a political earthquake to enjoy record majorities in the legislature, do not usually feel the need to spend...
However defined, all institutions claim to embody ideals. Representative politics, the great religious systems, the press and the family are commonly discussed in ideal language. From such...
OXFORD academics have been caught up in a war of words with funding chiefs over a poor inspection score for modern languages. The university's faculty of medieval and modern languages achieved top...
THE Higher Education Funding Council for England has made Pounds 2.5 million available to evaluate four new university Private Finance Initiative projects. HEFCE will provide up to half the cost of...
The British Library has announced a PFI project to design, implement and operate its bibliographic system. Axis Resources has won the contract which, the library says, will be the first step towards...
DONS at Oxford university are expected to vote at the end of this term on a new business school site, within days of the deadline set by benefactor Wafic Said. The favoured spot for the Pounds 40...