Has the student voice been tamed?
Universities’ zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome

Universities’ zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome

Sit up and be counted - Has the student voice been tamed?

FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: ÂŁ152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...

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Teacher trainingGove announces reviewMichael Gove, the education secretary, has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses. The review, which...
Robert Gellately’s review of Richard Evans’ Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Books, March) suggests that the author’s critique of the “what if” genre throws the baby out with the bathwater...
Thanks to William Poole for his useful review (Books, 24 April) of Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo.I now realise that Thomas Harrison’s arca studiorum, “a kind of...
Australia invented the “income contingent contribution” concept, a much better way to see the student contribution.When the Dearing Committee first debated the principle in 1996, the lifetime...
I write in response to the article “Manchester students take on economics curriculum in report”, News, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 22 April, and from the vantage point of having just organised a...
It is worth considering the pay of teaching fellows – frequently with PhDs, with a great deal of expertise in teaching and who carry at least some, if not all, of the responsibilities of curriculum...
Thank you for raising the old/new debate on the language of instruction in Arab universities (“Allow us to learn in our own language, Algerian says”, News, 17 April).The article essentially points to...
What an extraordinarily one-sided piece (“Nothing to be ashamed of”, Features, 1 May).In a lengthy article, there is not a single quote from an animal welfare organisation. The British Union for the...