Technology can help people to communicate even when they are seated around the same table, says Clive Holtham. City University's centre for virtual work, commerce and learning, which opens next week...
A doctorate has long been the near-compulsory licence for the would-be academic but no longer offers certain academic employment. It does, however, give access to research careers elsewhere. With...
The balance of power is shifting from the managers to practising academics, says Anthony Fletcher. The huge growth of the university sector has been marked by the proliferation of management. Subject...
When Europe's electors vote for a new parliament next week, the war in the Balkans, the fate of the euro and the elimination of corruption in Brussels will dominate the agenda. At least in Britain,...
Much publicity has been given to spectacular failures in quality control by institutions that have only recently become autonomous of local authority supervision. TVU and Wigan and Leigh colleges ("...
Like so many educationists these days, Linda Evans and Ian Abbott ("The credibility gap", THES, May 28) tell us that lecturers should not be taught anything about teaching but should learn their...
I would not like your readers to be misled by the headline introducing the piece by Olga Wojtas and Alan Thomson - "Scottish colleagues oppose CVCP restructuring plans" (THES, May 28). In reality,...
Your article on women professors ("9.2 per cent of professors are women", THES, May 28) seems somewhat simplistic and misleading. In the past decade, I have been on many appointing committees,...
Anyone who expected The THES to lead us over the barricades to gender equality in higher education would have been sadly disappointed by your editorial ("Women must be encouraged to go for top jobs...
I have been trying to discover what contribution employers make to the education of their staff since the ending of the old training levy. The question became an issue recently in the government's...
I would like an opportunity to explain the possible problem in the Dearing report as far as the calculation of returns on higher education is concerned. My views were reported last week ("'Flawed'...
When Paul Mackney, general secretary of Natfhe, says that "you can't run further education like Kentucky Fried Chicken" (Analysis, THES, May 28), does "can't" here mean "incapable of"? KFC is...
Stewart Brand is correct in saying that science fiction is necessary in any library that seeks to record the "long perspective" of history and the future in literature, ("The time of our lives", THES...
Maurice Frankel. Director. Campaign for the Freedom of Information If you are a researcher, hoping that official files will be opened to scrutiny as a result of the government's draft freedom of...
Contrary to Prince Charles's protestations, GM crops can reduce world hunger, argues Michael Lipton. Prince Charles's latest contribution to the debate on genetically modified foods, using the...