Fanning flames of international debate
Sir Drummond Bone seems to think that the criticism that UK higher education institutions recruit overseas students just for the money is the result of a very small fire giving off rather a lot of...
Sir Drummond Bone seems to think that the criticism that UK higher education institutions recruit overseas students just for the money is the result of a very small fire giving off rather a lot of...
It was with interest I read your feature about further education colleges gaining the ability under the Further Education and Training Bill to award their own foundation degrees ("Fight or flight",...
Reading Robert A. Segal's Off Piste article ("Life and sport: a world apart", October 23) was like sitting through my first-year sociology of sport seminar in week one, "Myths and misconceptions"....
I noticed a report of a presentation by Miriam David at a seminar of the Helena Kennedy Foundation ("MPs question credibility of 14-19 diplomas", 9 October). At this she reported the results of her...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England confuses employability with graduate employment rates in its latest conjecture about the value of a graduate employment indicator ("Hefce moots...
Is it possible to argue that the higher proportion of firsts being awarded now doesn't mean that someone who scraped a first this year wouldn't have got one 30 years ago (Leader, 23 October)?To argue...
One place where standards obviously are falling is the statistics department of Times Higher Education. How can you report ("Keep it stupid, simple", 23 October) survey results from about 500 readers...
What a sad indictment of our higher education system when it is stated in Times Higher Education that the only thing that counts is jobs ("From where I sit", 16 October).Whatever happened to getting...
Thomas Docherty's letter (23 October) is a welcome sign of resistance to the hideous juggernaut of Quality Assurance Agency vacuity now lumbering through British higher education.I had always...
A croupier deals a hand at the Times Higher Education Awards as guests try their luck at the charity casino. With the black-tie dress code setting the tone, vice-chancellors were among those doing...
The first plans for a £70 million redevelopment programme to transform the University of Bedfordshire's Luton campus have been submitted for approval. The first phase of the project includes new...
A world-famous art college is to open a new campus. The Royal College of Art has won planning permission for a new site to house its schools of fine and applied art. Some 250 students and staff will...
An X-ray camera developed by a team based in Oxfordshire has launched into space on board India's first mission to the moon. C1XS is an X-ray spectrometer that will map the surface composition of the...
Two London universities are teaming up to investigate the relationship between computer science and the arts. A collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, and University College London...
London has the underlying strength to recover from the effects of the world's economic crisis, according to a study conducted by a research group at the London School of Economics. Although the...