Nursing BSc
The University of Abertay Dundee is collaborating with the Royal College of Nursing on a nurse practitioner degree course, the first of its kind in Scotland. The BSc course aims to produce nurses...
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Oxford upgrade
Oxford University dons and senior administrators have backed proposals for a promotions policy that will create hundreds of new professors and readers. A postal ballot of members of the university's...
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Travel loophole
The Scottish Office Education Department is investigating allegations that students are claiming travel expenses fraudulently. Students whose parents live within commuting distance of their college...
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Quickie novel
Luton University politics lecturer Pat Gray this week won the World One Day Novel Cup. Mr Gray wrote his 20,000-word The Political Map of the Heart, which is about his childhood in Belfast, in just...
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Redrawing the map by numbers
In the 1980s Britain went indicator mad. Every institution was subjected to the attentions of managers and auditors compiling new performance indicators to set budgets, measure progress and turn the...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Super-vision
St Antony's College was singled out in an article about the Graduate Student Charter (THES, March 3) as an example of a graduate college where some dissatisfaction exists regarding university...
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Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Danger in strict codes of conduct
I was appalled by the article on campus "Don Juans" by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs (THES, March 10). Granted there are, regrettably, occasions when students are harassed and pressured by tutors into...
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Drawing the line on classes of degree
The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...
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Freud's shelf-life
Frederick Crews in his article, "Cheerful assassin defies analysis", (THES, March 3) presents himself as a sort of St George, "a kind and gentle man" slaying the psychoanalytic dragon because of his...
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Take the high road
Jean Barr argues that the Scottish adult education review offers a chance for resistance and transformation. Liberal adult education has been a small but durable part of the profile of the "old"...
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Injustice for the probation system
Home Office proposals to remove the training of probation officers from universities, reported in The THES two weeks ago, have wider implications. They may, if implemented, threaten other forms of...
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Time for stability...
This week Sir William Stubbs sat before the Public Accounts Committee for a grilling on the financial health of his two-year-old baby, the further education sector. The chief executive of the Further...
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Fraud ends on sick note
Allegations that Greek students have faked illness, backed by forged medical certificates provided by eminent doctors, in order to transfer from universities abroad to ones at home have led to...