Nasty, brutish and short
Ron Johnston, dissects the no-win rules of the Research Assessment Exercise. With less than a year to go to the submission date for the next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), there is frenzied...
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Sickness can be good for you
Randolph Nesse continues The THES's debate on the impact of Darwinism by arguing that much of what medicine terms disease or breakdown is in fact a defence the body has evolved to protect itself from...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....
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Minds hot and cross over quality
Sometimes a vigorous public disagreement can have a cathartic effect. Hopefully this will be the outcome of the somewhat fraught exchanges on the future of quality assurance which took place at the...
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Careers survey founded on wrong criteria
In response to your article "Graduates are ill-prepared for the jobs market" (THES, May 19), it may interest your readers to know that at the University of Sunderland we have responded to these...
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Careers survey founded on wrong criteria
The results of the UK Graduate Careers Survey 1995 compiled by High Fliers' Research recruitment consultants (THES, May 19) were not very impressive. First, there is no indication as to why the...
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New university plan lives
Last week's news of the change of the academic partner for the University of Lincolnshire Project brings a guarantee of success. Under the previous model, with Nottingham Trent University, the...
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New university plan lives
Contrary to the assertion in Alison Utley's article on the front page last week (THES, May 26) plans for an independent University of Lincolnshire have not been scrapped. They have been given a new...
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Rules of game lead to strikes
By discussing the dispute between college lecturers and their employers as a kind of poker game played by Natfhe and the Colleges Employers Forum, your leading article (THES, May 26) misses the...
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Teachers and petting do mix
Moves to 'protect' students from sexual relationships with their tutors are patronising and unnecessary, warns Jennie Bristow. The idea that relationships between lecturers and students are a problem...
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More money must be found
Expansion without more funding must stop now, says Ann Cotterrell. Quality is suffering through lack of funding. Lecturers are trying to maintain quality in the face of diminishing resources. It is...
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Militant march
The hard left are no doubt celebrating this weekend. As they see it they have won two famous victories, one in respect of strike ballots in further education, the other in respect of students' grants...
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A Romanian renaissance
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
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Germany lacks competitive edge
Germany's foreign secretary Klaus Kinkel has called for a fundamental adjustment of the country's higher education system, and wants industry and the federal and state governments to set up a joint...
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Juppe sidesteps grants pledge
France's new prime minister, Alain Juppe, has outlined plans to implement two of Jacques Chirac's electoral pledges on education to Parliament, but made no mention of his third major promise: to give...