Italy weaned from free access
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Despite legal hurdles and furious protests from the student left, Italian universities are increasingly...
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Medicine's balance needs readjusting
NINETEEN ninety-seven is an important year for medical education. Medical schools have recently come through the research assessment exercise with considerable misgivings and some trauma. Sir Rex...
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Thank God it's PFI-day
The review of public/private partnerships due today should kick-start university building projects which have been waiting for new guidance, say David Cuckson and Peter Walters Friday the 13th may be...
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On your marks for changes in the exam system
The anonymity of candidates is not sufficiently protected by the substitution of numbers for names, says Roger Watson Anonymous marking has become almost universal in higher education in the past ten...
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What's the problem?
Although Terry Hyland (THES, May 2) complains that transferable skills cannot be defined, I think I can offer a few suggestions. I would define communication skills as the ability to talk/write to an...
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A volunteer to leave
Concerning my leaving Southampton Institute in August of this year (THES, May 16). I have not been asked to take voluntary redundancy as you stated twice. In the normal course of events, I would have...
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Why we do not need a Hera
There is no doubt that existing salary and careers structures for academic and academic-related staff are seriously flawed, fail to meet elementary equal opportunities criteria and are open to...
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Why we do not need a Hera
The recent academic pay survey (THES, June 6) provided a sensation of "deja vu all over again" (to quote a prominent football manager). Those surveys showing university pay lagging behind comparable...
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Why we do not need a Hera
While agreeing with your editorial comment (THES, June 6) that academic librarians are not paid much, I have to express some reservations about the validity of Hay Management Consultants' conclusions...
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Female recognition
Sian Griffiths has misunderstood how Oxford University's recent professorial distinctions exercise operated ("Oxford women profs penalised", THES, June 6). The result is a story which is both...
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Unitary authority
In a recent conversation about progress with the new campus development at the University of Nottingham, it emerged that one of the senior planners for the project had commented that "we should be...
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Bullying by email
The article by Alison Utley on abusive emails (THES, May 30) suggests that this ground-breaking survey - the first to ever explore the incidence of electronic bullying, or workplace bullying via...
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Architecture student
Pascal Mugiraneza (THES, May 23) received sponsorship to complete an MA course in architecture at York in 1994/95. With financial help from the university, he went on to take a one-year certificate...
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Britain and Unesco need each other
IT WAS no coincidence that the visit by Unesco director general Federico Mayor to London should have taken place just one month after the general election. New Labour implies new directions. It...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday It is good to travel mid-week: planes half-empty, no wait in Moscow to go through passport control, ditto at baggage reclaim. In the old days, coming to Moscow was a real adventure. I would...