Letter: No satisfaction 1
What are we to make of the proposal to use a first-destinations survey to measure student satisfaction ("Graduates to rate quality", THES , November 23)? The government may wish to rebut criticisms...
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Letter: No satisfaction 2
A survey suggests that only 8 per cent of students "embark on tertiary education with anything approaching a keenness to learn" (Why II, THES , November 23). At last some honesty. As one who was part...
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Letter: Make the effort for all
The report "Disabled student paid settlement by UCLan" (Whistleblowers, THES , December 7) raises the issue of how to close the gap between a university's objectives and what happens when a...
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Leader: Researchers rise to the challenge of excellence
The research assessment exercise results published today are a triumph - and a disaster. They are a triumph because they demonstrate the increasing excellence of research in United Kingdom...
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Life behind closed eyes
Continuing our series on the Big Science Questions, Stephen LaBerge looks at the role dreams play in our conscious and unconscious lives. Every night we enter another world, the world of dreams....
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Divided loyalties
'God will not forsake us.. Muslims will remain on this earth; they will not die out but will spread throughout the world. Judaism will die out. Christianity will die out. Hinduism will die out, and...
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Understanding Uncle Sam: getting to grips with the culture that the British just love to hate
Britain has a tradition of anti-Americanism while embracing much US culture. George McKay ponders this apparent contradiction and its place in American studies. I'm so bored with the USA! I'm so...
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RAE league tables 2001
British university research is the best since records began, according to the outcome of this year’s research assessment exercise.More than 25,000 staff are celebrating the news that they are based...
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Latest news
Universities win copying tribunal An interim decision by the Copyright Tribunal has sided with vice-chancellors’ body Universities UK in almost all its pleas against the Copyright Licensing Agency....
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Latest international news
Police open fire at student demo At least two people were seriously injured when police in Malawi opened fire on student demonstrators protesting against the death in police custody of an outspoken...
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From today's UK papers
Study fuels argument on benefits of arms exports A new Ministry of Defence study on the economic costs and benefits of UK defence exports was yesterday seized upon by both sides of the argument on...
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Latest UK news
100 Birmingham jobs under threat Birmingham University's new vice-chancellor, Michael Stirling, has told academics and support staff that up to 100 jobs may be axed as part of a restructuring...
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Latest international news
Warning issued to Iran's hardliners Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has warned of internal conflict if hardliners continue to stifle student dissent. He told university officials and students: “...
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Latest UK news
£1bn bill for expansion, says Hefce Funding chiefs estimate that universities will have to recruit at least 300,000 more students, at a cost of well over £1 billion, to reach the government’s 50 per...
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From today's UK papers
Riot report blames police, ministers and communities Police, central government, local media, inept councillors and inward-looking Asian communities are all attacked in a damning Home Office report...