Value of peer groups
We should not mourn the passing of the "Educating Rita"-style personal tutorial (THES, March 15). The so-called "modification" of this system into a group-based system of tutoring reflects...
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Quality that can't add up
Ministers must be wondering whether they have taken a rod to their own backs by banging on about standards in higher education. The attempts of higher education minister Eric Forth to dump the blame...
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Prosaic solution to unspoken issues
Fiona is in the final year of an honours degree in architecture. In tutorials she discusses issues fluently. Her tutors have been impressed by the imagination in her design work. But Fiona is...
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Thanks for the memory: Inventor Tony Anson
(Photograph) - Thanks for the memory: Inventor Tony Anson shows how the 'shape memory alloy' transforms its shape when heated by a cigarette lighter
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Teaching courses set a price-list
The Teacher Training Agency has dropped plans to introduce a "crude" payment-by-results element into its 1997/98 funding system unveiled today. But it is to press ahead with setting common price...
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Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...
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Engineers prove their medical metal
The invasion of the engineers into medicine continued this week as a bio-engineer revealed a device that makes broken bones mend quicker. The device was displayed as part of SET96, national science...
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HEFCE seeks power to prioritise subjects
Funding councils need more power to intervene in the development of particular disciplines in higher education, vice chancellors and academics heard this week, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher...
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Scots lead student U-turn
Student moderates are increasingly hopeful that the National Union of Students will abandon its traditional call for the restoration of full grants at its Blackpool conference next week, following a...
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PAC finds Pounds 15m loans debts
Universities and the Department for Education and Employment must develop more reliable means of tracing and recording student drop-outs, says a report from the influential House of Commons Public...
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Kingsway pair seeks review
A former student union president expelled and a fellow officer suspended from Kingsway College were to appear before the Legal Aid Board yesterday to seek support for a judicial review of their case...
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God - or mere man?
(Photograph) - God - or mere man? Argument rages over whether this mysterious and immense bronze figure, dating from around 1200bc and discovered in 1986 in sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui, China, is...
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Cuts hamper search for quality
Universities and colleges still face serious challenges in improving quality management, according to a report out today. But funding cuts may hamper their attempts to tackle weaknesses, say the...
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Inner life of don-dom
Inundated with information about nearly every aspect of higher education, we lack sustained discussion of the changing inner culture of universities. There are several good starts, however. Tony...
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Campus security is a key issue
All of us in universities are ambivalent about safety and security on our campuses. We expect to be hermetically sealed against thieves, drug pushers and peeping toms but we resent any obvious...