Cash back pledge is too late
The Canadian province of Alberta's government is reinstating some of the 21 per cent of cuts to higher education it has made in its past three years in office. The Progressive Conservative Party has...
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Teaching: just another subject?
The recent outcry against the Government's plans to ask the Teacher Training Agency to develop a national curriculum for initial teacher training (THES, June 21) was extreme and misplaced. Once again...
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Harsh words miss Harris's point
I am sorry that Anthony Cohen (Opinion, THES, June 28) felt it necessary to address the recommendations of the postgraduate review, which I chaired, in somewhat intemperate language, particularly...
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Employers renege on college pay
Further education college managers fear a significant fall in morale and motivation following claims that employers reneged on an understanding over pay. Leaders of the Association for College...
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Growth spurt ends for staying-on rate
The first official signs of another crisis in post-16 education emerged this week. Government figures reveal that growth in the proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training has tailed...
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Foot and mouth
Say what you like about Euro96, it at least gave academics in financially straitened universities something else to be worried about. A THES reporter ringing a London Guildhall academic the morning...
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Staff oppose degree move
Buckinghamshire College of 糖心Vlog has taken a further step towards full university status by announcing that it will offer its own degrees for courses starting next academic year. The High...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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Ancillary staff support
Iwrite to associate the Transport and General Workers Union with the battle against cash cuts in higher education (THES, June 28). Attention may have centred on mortar boards but the T&G is...
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Science and the state
The controversial Cambridge University scientist Terence Kealey, who claims science would be better off without Government funding, lost a debate on the issue this week. Dr Kealey and Unilever's Tony...
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Jitters over cash delay forecasts
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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College warder
Wanted: Someone experienced in counselling undesirable members of the community institutionalised by years confined to aged, fortress-like buildings. No wonder then that Anthony Butler, chief careers...
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Greens and genes are key
European research should focus on genetics development, creating a sustainable environment and examining social change, according to the European Science Foundation. The recommendations form part of...
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Pioneer state struggles to keep access door ajar
California's 30-year-old policy of offering a college education to any state resident who could benefit appears on the verge of falling apart. There is mounting concern among experts that a tidal...
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Unbecoming foreign trip up
India's University Grants Committee is planning to set up entry rules for foreign universities planning to provide higher education to the immense and potentially lucrative Indian market (page seven...