Ta-ta to tutorials
Although biased towards the value of tutorials in higher education, as a non-lawyer I found myself quite unconvinced by the defence of them offered by Richard Mullender (Personal View, THES,...
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Academic animal feed
Should university professors participate in "performance-based" incentive schemes and bonus programmes? The question is widely asked wherever universities are being called on by their governments to...
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Warnock's failing
Baroness Warnock (THES, September 20) refers to the "dismal record" of comprehensive schools. There is not a comprehensive in the country that does not send pupils to university. Was there a...
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Dearing teams up
A team from the Institute of Education, London, will examine more than 1,500 replies to a questionnaire from the Dearing inquiry into higher education. Led by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional...
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Health experts attack Blair's NHS remarks
Health economists are urging the Labour party to come clean on its plans for a revamped NHS, after Tony Blair announced earlier this week that a Labour government would reverse the internal market in...
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Why wait?
Rumour has it that Queuing Societies have been formed at some universities, with the sole purpose of forming queues that do not actually have any purpose. The devious members start queues and then...
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Welsh start statement regime
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Welsh higher education institutions this week became the first to submit...
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Virtual solution to urban malaise
Housing estates that soon turn into social disasters, offices with poor working environments and shopping precincts that fail to attract shoppers are familiar and depressing features of the urban...
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Ukrainians threaten pay delay protest
Ukrainian university lecturers and students have called for the dismissal of education minister Mykhaylo Zhurovsky and the adoption of an "emergency budget" to save the country's higher education...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry (Opinion, THES, September 20) argues that we should restrict the supply of engineering graduates by limiting access to degree courses to those who can display a very high level of...
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Dean of death
A university dean who has never visited a murder scene and has eyesight so poor he cannot even read a signed confession is now the best-known homicide expert in the US. Tim Cornwell reports....
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...
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A storm of emotion
"His previous books have covered such issues as sulking, guilt and anger," explains a Goldsmiths College press release about professor of counselling Windy Dryden. He should have plenty of material...
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Stone cold sobering
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis is undoubtedly a fine motto for a medical school, being both Hippocratic in origin and a reflection of the time doctors spend in training. But one has to question setting it in...
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Models for brave new world
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. By the end of the next academic year, every department at the College of...