Justified whingeing
SET96, national science, engineering and technology week, has seen the great and good entertained at Downing Street, lecture halls and labs thrown open to the public and academics doing their party...
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Marketplace muddle
Among Sir Ron Dearing's initial thoughts on the university of the 21st century are that it will have a "sharper commercial edge" and will encourage the development of postgraduate students' "...
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The professionals take the stage
The Dearing inquiry will also be an inquiry into professional education, for two reasons. First, preparation for the professions constitutes a big chunk of what universities and colleges do. Second,...
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Getting to grips with inflation
University education in the United Kingdom is at a crossroads. The Dearing review will give an opportunity to make decisions with ramifications into the next century. One of the ironies of the...
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Art for aesthetics' sake rewards the audience
Andrew Pinnock has his critical values turned inside out (THES, Letters, March 1). Art is surely not "great" by virtue of the fact that "enough of the right people agree it deserves to be", but...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
The manufacturer, Fila, is representing its shoes through the advertising campaign "The best F in shoes". In the light of last week's colourful interchange on the link between resources and quality,...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
Eric Forth (THES, March 22) is unfit to be a minister in an education department, for he shows himself to have not even a beginner's idea of what education is about. Inability to find books in the...
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Value of peer groups
We should not mourn the passing of the "Educating Rita"-style personal tutorial (THES, March 15). The so-called "modification" of this system into a group-based system of tutoring reflects...
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Quality that can't add up
Ministers must be wondering whether they have taken a rod to their own backs by banging on about standards in higher education. The attempts of higher education minister Eric Forth to dump the blame...
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Prosaic solution to unspoken issues
Fiona is in the final year of an honours degree in architecture. In tutorials she discusses issues fluently. Her tutors have been impressed by the imagination in her design work. But Fiona is...
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Thanks for the memory: Inventor Tony Anson
(Photograph) - Thanks for the memory: Inventor Tony Anson shows how the 'shape memory alloy' transforms its shape when heated by a cigarette lighter
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Teaching courses set a price-list
The Teacher Training Agency has dropped plans to introduce a "crude" payment-by-results element into its 1997/98 funding system unveiled today. But it is to press ahead with setting common price...
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Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...
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Engineers prove their medical metal
The invasion of the engineers into medicine continued this week as a bio-engineer revealed a device that makes broken bones mend quicker. The device was displayed as part of SET96, national science...
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HEFCE seeks power to prioritise subjects
Funding councils need more power to intervene in the development of particular disciplines in higher education, vice chancellors and academics heard this week, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher...