Brussels, 21 September 2006 The Commission yesterday appointed Mr Daniel JACOB as Deputy Director-General in charge of Community Research Programmes. Mr Daniel JACOB, 56, is currently the director...
University workers hit by increase in violence University and college staff in Edinburgh are facing growing levels of violence and abuse from students, lecturers' union leaders warned yesterday. One...
Understanding the Framework Agreement Dave Goodenough, Deputy Assistant Head of Human Resources at Poppleton University, replies to questions about the modernisation of pay structures. Q. What...
It can be hazardous running an elderly institution such as New College, Oxford, not least when you get curious about what its creator thought the institution was set up to do. It's worse if you have...
The rate of return from higher education - to both individuals and the state - has been debated since well before top-up fees were on the horizon. It had a report to itself in the Dearing Inquiry of...
This week's launch of GuildHE represents a welcome sign of life among those smaller institutions that can too easily be ignored in the scramble for influence over higher education policy. The...
Stephen Gorard and his colleagues have produced a very comprehensive and valuable review of the literature on widening participation ("Experts: access policy futile" and Opinion, September 15). While...
Stephen Gorard makes claims that link qualifications to class and income. But an association or correlation between two variables does not imply a causal connection, as any undergraduate is taught....
Stephen Gorard advocates a hurdle system for university access. My experience of such a system was excellent. I passed the matura (similar to the baccalaureate) with reasonable grades and...
Stephen Gorard asks "Why use qualifications as a means of rationing higher education?". For mathematics, in which university courses build on foundations laid at school, the answer is obvious: to...
I'm delighted that the widening participation review concluded that universities should scrap entry requirements. I argued a couple of years ago that selection was discriminatory, that there should...
Stephen Gorard writes about "respecting the choice of those who reject higher education". Pupils I have worked with who come from poor and largely bookless homes will be intrigued by the notion that...
The conclusions drawn in "Transfers prove costly" (September 15) do not reflect the performance of university technology-transfer offices (TTOs). While the costs of TTOs are known, income generated...
It is correct that covering costs of technology transfer or making a profit is extremely difficult, but it is not impossible. A properly organised and managed unit should at least break even, but...
I was deeply moved by the tragic case of Diana Winstanley ("Suicide don under 'huge stress' in job", September 15). I have personal grounds for empathy. My university refused to give me leave, even...