Be sensitive to Chinese minds
WHAT. Pat Leon talks to Yvonne Turner about the classroom culture shocks thatChinese students suffer here. WHY. If Britain wants to attract foreign students, lecturers must understand their education...
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The give-and-take case for overseas students
The vision of open access is clouded by a world market where money reigns supreme, argues Lalage Bown. The criticism of exclusivity lobbed at certain British universities implies, however...
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Pay blights prospect of recruiting young talent
Universities are short of money: a message that the government seems reluctant to hear, though evidence to the select committee (page 3) this week will once again have rammed home the message. Higher...
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Two-way tug on merged budget for health care
What is wrong with the National Health Service? Not much, according to health secretary Alan Milburn, who says that Labour has met its 1997 election promises on health and is moving on to yet higher...
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Oh lord (and lady)
Lord Baker is correct to highlight the chronic underfunding afflicting universities and many will agree with his analysis (Soapbox, THES, June 16). But was he not a Tory MP, secretary of state for...
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Oh lord (and lady)
One vital function of universities is to question received wisdom - of precisely the type expounded by Baroness Blackstone that the chief task of universities is to serve the needs of the economy and...
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Indicators of concern
There is an overwhelming case for some form of performance measurement for all organisations. The recent Times and Financial Times exercises have produced indicators that are being developed into "...
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To admit, to pass and to fail
You are right to ask if it is really impossible to crack post-qualification admission (Leader, THES, June 9). There is no doubt it would be possible. All the Department for Education and Employment...
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To admit, to pass and to fail
Most students now apparently get a 2:1 of some sort. How this has come about perhaps matters less than what to do in the future. A levels are changing, and we should start looking ahead and introduce...
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To admit, to pass and to fail
My faculty board is being recommended to adopt a quadratic scaling procedure in place of the present linear scaling method. The justification provided is that "the advantages of quadratic scaling...
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Surplus spending
If the Universities Superannuation Scheme is looking for a way to spend some of its (our?) surplus sensibly ("Conflicting interests in the grey market", THES June 9), then employing a few more staff...
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Behind the cloud
It was disturbing to learn our colleges and universities are living "under a black cloud", submerged in "a wave of scandals", while I have been blissfully unaware of any such "cloud" or "wave" ("...
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Their time, their money
John Sutherland's article "Double your money" (THES, June 16) has one big drawback, namely that what he writes about is still moonlighting. Having recently done some teaching outwith the university...
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Artful codger?
Elaine Williams writes that when David Hockney was a student at the Royal College of Art, he was supposed to complete a written assignment, but refused ("An optical disillusion", THES, June 16) . Not...
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Braveheart historians
Jeffrey Richards's article demonstrates that a confusion common in the popular press has emerged in academia (Soapbox, THES, June 16). This is encapsulated in his opening sentence: "Hollywood is at...