Barriers broken by linguistic diversity
Language is at the heart of the diversity of Swiss higher education. The country is split between the French and German-speaking cantons and the language of instruction in the cantonal universities...
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Get a lawyer, David
Michelangelo's David is taller than textbooks say. When Marc Levoy and his team from Stanford University turned up to scan the statue with lasers for a 3D digital archive of sculptures, he had to...
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Catch-up pay is necessary to keep up quality
This week pay review bodies for teachers, nurses, doctors and others have gone to the cabinet, and the prime minister, Tony Blair, has reiterated his liking for performance-related pay in the public...
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Diversity and quality will thrive under light touch
Anything more than minimal external reviews will harm the quality they are meant to ensure, Alec Broers argues The first students to pay tuition fees have completed their first term. These fees will...
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No views here
Your diary (THES, January 15) suggests that I might have a view about a candidate in our executive election. As returning officer, I do not. In my former post in Natfhe, I took no part in...
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No views here
Higher Education Role Analysis is claimed to be "hated by the AUT, disliked by Natfhe, but supported by other unions" ("Is Bett about to pay dividends?", THES, January 22). This is inaccurate. MSF is...
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Questions of structural integrity
The institutional setting of architectural education is barely hinted at in Sir Colin Stansfield Smith's draft report, nor in Kam Patel's otherwise useful report ("Architects fear course renovation...
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Questions of structural integrity
You quote a Higher Education Funding Council for England official as saying that "a change from a five-year to a three-year undergraduate programme plus a two-year postgraduate programme would not...
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Questions of structural integrity
The statement from HEFCE illustrates the protectionism that has so dominated architectural education in the past two decades; even the RIBA response was immediately protectionist. It may be necessary...
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Questions of structural integrity
What is needed is staff who can produce more and better research and heads of schools of architecture who value research and have sufficient knowledge of it to be able to manage their resources....
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Agony aunt
Q Some of my engineering students have a rather elementary grasp of maths. What is the best way of helping them? A Janet Duffin Maths lecturer and head of numeracy project Hull University Much of the...
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Spare good governors
Members of college governing bodies are rightly exhorted to recognise boundaries between governance and management and not to interfere in tasks allocated to the college principal. It is hard, in a...
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US A-bombs crime
In Sir Timothy Garden's review of Hiroshima's Shadow ("Atomic truths exploded", THES, January 8), no reference was made to the number of casualties of the A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki. An estimated 40,...
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A call for evidence
A principle of car mechanics is, when the vehicle is not running perfectly, start by adjusting the engine rather than by dismantling the car. This principle should apply equally to policy-making. The...
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Wishes, perchance to dream
Neurological tests provide evidence that Freud's theory of dreams may have been right, says Mark Solms It is not very fashionable now to believe in Freudian theories about how the mind works....